by Susan | Aug 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1935 Annie Proulx “What we fear we often rage against.” August 23, 1951 Queen Noor of Jordan “The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 21, 1939 In an action coordinated by a young black attorney, five African-American men applied for library cards in Alexandria, Virginia’s new library. When they were refused because of their race, each quietly took a book from the shelves, sat down and...
by Susan | Aug 20, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 20, 2014 Russian police arrested four people who climbed a Moscow skyscraper, attached a Ukrainian flag to its spire and painted the upper part of the massive golden-colored star on top of the spire blue, so that it would also resemble the yellow-blue Ukrainian...
by Susan | Aug 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 19, 1791 Benjamin Banneker sent a copy of his just-published almanac to Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, along with an appeal on behalf of African-Americans’ “humiliating condition (slavery)…” He wrote, “… Sir, how...
by Susan | Aug 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 18, 2010 A leading Venezuelan newspaper replaced front-page photos with the word “censored” to protest a court’s month-long ban on the publication of information and photos about...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 17, 1915 Leo Frank was lynched by a mob in Marietta, Georgia, one of the worst incidents of anti-Semitism of the period. Frank had been convicted of the rape and murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, who worked at the pencil factory where he was a superintendent....
