by Susan | Apr 20, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 20, 1983 In United States v. Grace, the US Supreme Court ruled that Title 40 U.S.C. 13K was unconstitutional. The law prohibited the “display [of] any flag, banner, or device designed or adapted to bring into public notice any party, organization, or...
by Susan | Apr 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 19, 1960 More than 100,000 students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign on April 26. The protests were touched off by the discovery in Masan Harbor of the body of a student...
by Susan | Apr 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 18, 2013 A Kurdish-Iranian man, Masound Fathi, created the Facebook page, “Kurd Men for Equality.” Three days earlier, an Iranian court had punished another Kurd by parading him through town in woman’s clothing. Fathi had a friend photograph him dressed in...
by Susan | Apr 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 17, 1943 A sit-in by African-American students at Howard University students challenged racial segregation at the Little Palace Cafeteria, on 14th and U Streets in Washington, D.C. Trailblazing Civil Rights attorney Pauli Murray, who was then a student at Howard...
by Susan | Apr 16, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 16, 1959 The CBS television drama series Playhouse 90 broadcast Judgment at Nuremberg, based on the 1945–46 trials of German Nazi leaders for war crimes, but did not include any references to gas chambers in the Holocaust in deference to the sponsor of the...
by Susan | Apr 15, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 15, 2009 Nearly 200 women began a march in front of a conservative Shia Muslim university in Kabu, Afghanistan,l that had supported the “Shia Personal Status Law,” which placed strict religious restrictions on women. As the women began to march along the road...
