by Susan | Jun 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 23, 2011 Senegalese youth, many involved in the hip-hop scene, formed a group called “Y’en a Marre,” ( “fed up”) to protest proposed changes to the constitution which would have kept the current president in power. On this day hundreds of thousands protested...
by Susan | Jun 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 22, 1964 In Escobedo v. Illinois, the Supreme Court held that under the Sixth Amendment criminal suspects have a right to counsel during in-custody interrogations. The case was decided a year after the court held in Gideon v. Wainwright that indigent criminal...
by Susan | Jun 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 21, 1964 James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three young Freedom Summer workers, disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while registering Negroes to vote. Their bodies were found six weeks later, having been shot and then buried in an earthen...
by Susan | Jun 20, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 20, 1995 Greenpeace activists forced the UK’s Shell Oil into a dramatic reversal of its decision to dispose of a massive oil rig by submerging it beneath the sea. After changing its mind, Shell moored the rig and began dismantling the structure at a cost of £43m,...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 19, 1939 The American Library Association adopted the Library Bill of Rights, partiality in response to events in Nazi Germany, where Jews were barred from libraries, and books by Jewish authors and other works disfavored by the Nazi regime were burned. It says,...
by Susan | Jun 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 18, 1452 Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas. It authorized Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and any other unbelievers” to perpetual slavery. This facilitated the Portuguese slave trade from West...
