by Susan | May 31, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 31, 1854 The civil death procedure was abolished in France. Civil death (Latin: civiliter mortuus) is the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony. In the US, the disenfranchisement of felon has been called a form of...
by Susan | May 30, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 30, 1919 Poet Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, having received received the news of the Amrister Massacre, renounce his knighthood as “a symbolic act of protest.” In the repudiation letter addressed to the...
by Susan | May 29, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 29, 1941 The Disney animators went on strike. Labor pressures had been building since promises made to artists over the success of Snow White were reneged on. On May 28, Walt Disney fired animator Art Babbitt, the creator of Goofy, and thirteen other cartoonists...
by Susan | May 28, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 28, 1892 In San Francisco, John Muir organized the Sierra Club. The Club’s first goals included establishing Glacier and Mount Rainier national parks, convincing the California legislature to give Yosemite Valley to the U.S. federal government, and...
by Susan | May 27, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 27, 1968 The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sébastien...
by Susan | May 26, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 26, 1957 Because the U.S. government had suspended singer/activist Paul Robeson’s passport based on of his political views, he gave a concert by phone for a London audience. One thousand people crammed into St. Pancras Hall to hear Robeson sing six numbers....
