by Susan | Aug 31, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 31, 2015 U.S. President Barack Obama restored the Native American name of Alaska’s Mount McKinley, the tallest North American peak; the mountain reverted to its former name of...
by Susan | Aug 30, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 30, 2015 120,000 of protesters rallied outside Japan’s parliament in Tokyo to oppose a proposed constitutional change that could see troops in the officially pacifist nation engage in combat for the first time since World War II. Protesters chanted “No to war...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 29, 1758 The first Indian reservation, Brotherton, was established in New Jersey. A tract of three thousand acres of land was purchased at Edge Pillock, in Burlington County. The treaty of 1758 required the Delaware Tribes, in exchange for the land, to renounce...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 28, 1963 The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of half a million gathered on the Mall in Washington,...
by Susan | Aug 27, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 27, 1685 The Strasbourg Agreement, signed between France and the Holy Roman Empire, banned the use of poison bullets in conflict. The next major agreement on chemical weapons did not occur until the 1925 Geneva...
by Susan | Aug 26, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 26, 1920 The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, officially became part of the U.S. Constitution: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” This...
