by Susan | Oct 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 2, 1924 The 47 member states of the League of Nations gave preliminary approval to The Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes. This proposal, presented by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his French counterpart Édouard...
by Susan | Oct 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 1, 1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California – Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 30, 1962 Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members, white students and others, tried to keep a black student, James Meredith, 29, from attending classes at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They were supported by the governor, Ross Barnett, who had explicitly...
by Susan | Aug 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 13, 1906 The Brownsville Raid, an alleged rampage by soldiers from the all-black Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, resulted in the largest summary dismissals in the history of the United States Army. The battalion arrived at Brownsville, then a community of...
by Susan | Mar 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 31, 1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain. The future First Lady wrote,...
