by Susan | Jan 1, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 1, 1986 The arrest of 10 anti-nuclear activists for trespassing at Nevada Test Site culminated a 54-day encampment at the main Test Site gate. The camp establishes momentum for what became a movement of over 10,000 arrests in numerous Test Site protests over...
by Susan | Dec 31, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 31, 1963 President Lyndon Johnson escorted Gerri Wittington, an African-American and one of his personal secretaries in the White House, to the New Year’s Eve Ball at the University of Texas Faculty Club (known as the Forty Acres Club) in Austin, Texas. The...
by Susan | Dec 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 30, 1790 Etta Lubina Johanna Palm d’Aelders, a Dutch feminist outspoken during the French Revolution, gave the address Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favour of Men at the Expense of Women to the French National Convention. In this speech, she...
by Susan | Dec 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 29, 1890 In the final chapter of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry killed 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Throughout 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 28, 1973 President Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act. The first list of endangered species contained Gray whales. The Gray whale was removed from the list in 1994 when the population climbed back to about...
by Susan | Dec 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 27, 1937 Harriet Elizabeth Brown was a Calvert County school teacher in the 1930s. In 1937, she became aware that white teachers were making almost twice the salary of Black teachers who had the same level of education and experience. She contacted NAACP...
