by Susan | Jun 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 17, 1954 Operation Wetback” began, a federal immigration enforcement effort directed at Mexicans who had entered the U.S. illegally. The offensive name of the program was symptomatic of the cultural and political climate of the times. An estimated 107,000 people...
by Susan | Jun 16, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 16, 1933 President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act, including the Glass–Steagall provisions which separated commercial from investment banking. The 1999 Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA) repealed the two provisions restricting affiliations between banks and...
by Susan | Jun 15, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 15, 1982 In Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a Texas statute denying funding for education to unauthorized immigrant children and simultaneously struck down a municipal school district’s (Tyler) attempt to charge...
by Susan | Jun 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 14, 1966 The Vatican abolished their list of prohibited books (Index librorum prohibitorum) from 1557, which in 1948 still included authors like Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Milton, Locke, Swift, Kant, Spinoza, de Balzac, Bacon, Zola, Sartre,...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 13, 2009 The day after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected President of Iran, hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protested the results, chanting “Where is my vote?,” because they believed that the election was fraudulent. Most of the protesters joined the...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 12, 1929 Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover, sparked a racist uproar when she invited Jessie De Priest, wife of an African-American member of the House, Oscar De Priest (R–Illinois), to tea at the White House. President Hoover was upset at the...
