by Susan | Jun 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 21, 1964 James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three young Freedom Summer workers, disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while registering Negroes to vote. Their bodies were found six weeks later, having been shot and then buried in an earthen...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 19, 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” June 24, 1542 St. John of the Cross “If a man wishes to...
by Susan | Jun 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 18, 1452 Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas. It authorized Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and any other unbelievers” to perpetual slavery. This facilitated the Portuguese slave trade from West...
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 The 1999 Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA) repealed the two provisions restricting affiliations between banks and...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...
