by Susan | Apr 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 19, 1960 More than 100,000 students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign on April 26. The protests were touched off by the discovery in Masan Harbor of the body of a student...
by Susan | Apr 18, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 18, 1941 Bus companies in New York City agreed to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics after a four-week boycott by riders led by Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. of Harlem’s Abysinnian Baptist Church, then the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Powell...
by Susan | Apr 17, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 17, 1959 Twenty two were arrested in New York City for refusing to take shelter during a civil defense drill. Pictured above is Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day, just prior to her...
by Susan | Apr 16, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 16, 1929 Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger appeared on stage at Ford Hall Forum in Boston wearing a gag to protest a ban on her speaking in Boston by Mayor James...
by Susan | Apr 15, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 15, 2014 276 girls were taken from their school after an attack by the Boko Haram militant group in Chibok, Nigeria. The girls were thought to be taken to a hard to access remote area of forest in the country or out of the country. The kidnappings sparked the...
by Susan | Apr 14, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 14, 1930 Police arrested more 100 Chicano farm workers for their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight were convicted of so-called “criminal syndicalism.” Syndicalism is a system of economic organization in which industries are owned...
