by Susan | Nov 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 7, 1973 New Jersey became the first state to allow girls into the Little League. The batting cages in the Hoboken Little League fields are now named for Maria Pepe, the girl whose parents brought the...
by Susan | Nov 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 6, 1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi led 2,500 ethnic Indian miners, women and others from South Africa’s Natal province across its border with Transvaal in the Great March, a violation of the pass laws restricting the movement of all non-whites in the country. Gandhi...
by Susan | Nov 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 5, 1959 The Baptist General Convention of Texas advised its 1.6 million members to think carefully before voting for a Roman Catholic political candidate. It resolved: “Theoretically, a Roman Catholic has as much right to be elected to public office as anyone...
by Susan | Nov 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 4, 1960 Jane Goodall first observed chimpanzees creating tools. At Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, she observed two chimps pick up small twigs, strip off the leaves, and use them as tools to fish for termites in the ground to eat for a snack. This was...
by Susan | Nov 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 3, 1933 Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, criticized the ideology of “rugged individualism” as a “doctrine of the devil” and “dog eat dog” in a speech at Philadelphia Board of Trade. He said: “Rugged...
by Susan | Nov 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 2, 2002 The German Freethinker Settlers monument was dedicated in Comfort, Texas. The monument was originally supposed to be placed in the Comfort Park in 1998, but an outcry against atheists prevented this from happening. The Cenotaph’s plaque says...
