by Susan | Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
•1 Ecclesiastical year begins – Orthodox Christian •5 Krishna Janmashtami – Hindu •14-15 Rosh Hashanah – Jewish (begins sundown on 13) •17 Ganesh Chaturthi – Hindu •18 Paryushana Parva – Jain •22 Waqf al Arafa – Hajj – Islam...
by Susan | Jun 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
June 1, 1921 America’s worst race riot, begun the day before over the threat of a lynching, culminated in the complete destruction of the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahome. Nearly 10,000 were left homeless. June 1, 1942 German Chancellor...
by Susan | May 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
May 8, 1980 The World Health Organization “Declares solemnly that the world and its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since earliest time, leaving death, blindness and...
by Susan | Apr 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
April 21, 1989 Six days after the death of Hu Yaobang, the deposed reform-minded leader of the Chinese Communist Party, some 100,000 students gathered at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu and voice their discontent with China’s authoritative...
by Susan | Feb 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
February 18, 1943 Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, the leaders of the German youth group Weisse Rose (White Rose), were arrested by the Gestapo for opposing the Nazi regime. The White Rose was composed of university students who spoke out against Adolf Hitler and...
by Susan | Jan 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
January 31, 1865 The U.S. House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in America. The amendment read, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to...
