by Susan | Apr 1, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 1, 1932 In the midst of the Great Depression, 500 school children, most with haggard faces & in tattered clothes, paraded through Chicago’s downtown section to the Board of Education offices to demand that the school system provide them with...
by Susan | Mar 31, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 31, 2016 The Philadelphia City Council apologized fFor an incident in 1947 when, Jackie Robinson faced some of the most abhorrent racism of his baseball career during a game against the Phillies, when the team’s manager led the players in hurling taunts...
by Susan | Mar 30, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 30, 1919 Gandhi called for a day of “hartal,” when all business was to be suspended and people were to fast and pray as a protest against the Rowlatt Bills, which indefinitely extended the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention,...
by Susan | Mar 29, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 29, 1961 The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections. Unaddressed by the Twenty-third Amendment were the parallel issues of congressional representation and...
by Susan | Mar 28, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 28, 2009 Tibetans rallied against the China’s new holiday, Serfs Liberation Day, on the 50th anniversary of Beijing’s crushing of a Tibetan uprising that led to the Dalai Lama’s exile. The Chinese claim that it is honoring what it calls the liberation of slaves...
by Susan | Mar 27, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 27, 1969 The first Chicano Youth Liberation Conference was held by the Crusade for Justice; the poet Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia, known as Alurista, presented his poem on the myth of Aztlán, which captured the imagination of the conference. In this video he...
