by Susan | Mar 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 20, 1915 The British government signed a secret agreement with Russia regarding the hypothetical post-World War I division of the former Ottoman Empire. By the terms of the agreement, Russia would annex Constantinople (now called Istanbul), the Bosporus Strait...
by Susan | Mar 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 18, 2011 As a means to thwart a growing reform movement in the kingdom of Bahrain, the government destroyed the structure in the middle of the Pearl Roundabout, the focal point of demonstrations over the previous six weeks. Groups of Shiite Muslims, treated as...
by Susan | Mar 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 17, 1968 The oil supertanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground and, in the worst oil spill ever, lost its entire cargo of 1,619,048 barrels. A slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long polluted approximately 200 miles of France’s Brittany...
by Susan | Mar 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 16, 1960 Lunch counter sits-ins were scheduled to begin in San Antonio on March 17, but most were integrated the day before, making San Antonio the first major southern city to integrate. Joske’s, a large department store, only integrated its basement...
by Susan | Mar 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 15, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson went on national television to pledge his support to the Selma protesters (who had been twice turned back by Alabama state troopers on their attempted march to Montgomery) and call for the passage of a new voting rights bill...
