by Susan | Jun 12, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 12, 1982 Nearly a million people marched in New York City to protest the nuclear buildup between the US and the Soviet Union. The rally was reflective of a grassroots “anti-nuke” movement throughout the US and Europe in favor of ending the nuclear arms...
by Susan | Jun 11, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 11, 1963 Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by...
by Susan | Jun 10, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 10, 1968 Florence Flast and others sued Wilber Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, because HEW was spending funds on religious schools in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The District Court had ruled that Flast lacked...
by Susan | Jun 9, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 9, 1969 In the case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, Clarence Brandenburg was an Ohio Ku Klux Klan member convicted of violating the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism law for making extreme racist statements against African-Americans and Jews. The Supreme Court overturned his...
by Susan | Jun 8, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 8, 1975 In response to revelations that the CIA had undertaken secret plots to assassinate foreign leaders, Attorney General Edward H. Levi stated that presidents do not have the authority to order the assassination of foreign leaders. A year later, on February...
by Susan | Jun 7, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 7, 1893 Mohandas K. Gandhi, then a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg. It was his first act of civil...
