by Susan | May 8, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 8, 1946 Fourteen-year-old Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet memorial in Tallinn. Since the Soviets occupied Estonia the year before they had blown up monuments to Estonian soldiers and their revolution to replace them with their...
by Susan | May 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 7, 1844 A Protestant mob in Philadelphia, shouting “Kill them! Kill them!” burned down more than 30 homes in the predominantly Irish suburb of Kensington. The immediate cause of the riots stemmed from Catholic opposition to the exclusive use of the...
by Susan | May 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 6, 1953 Radical artist William Gropper was called to testify before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He had allowed the State Department to distribute prints of his painting celebrating American folklore. Senator Joseph McCarthy considered the...
by Susan | May 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 5, 1919 The National Conference on Lynching, held in New York City, marked the beginning of a decades-long but ultimately unsuccessful campaign for a federal anti-lynching law. An estimated 2,500 people, both African-American and white, attended the three-day...
by Susan | May 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 4, 1919 In what has come to be known as the May Forth Movement (五四运动, Wusi Yundong), 5,000 students demonstrated in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory in the present-day Shandong Province to...
by Susan | May 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 3, 1954 In Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Mexican-Americans and all other racial and ethnic groups were guaranteed equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment. Pedro Hernandez was an agricultural worker in Edina, TX charged...
