by Susan | Mar 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 1, 1943 More than 70,000 rallied at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, calling on the U.S. government to reconsider its refusal to offer sanctuary to Jewish refugees of Nazi Germany. Information about Nazi atrocities against Jews had leaked out of Europe;...
by Susan | Feb 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 28, 1854 The Republican Party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, by anti-slavery abolitionists, in reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which left the issue of slavery up to individual states. February 28, 1919 Mohandas Gandhi launched his campaign of...
by Susan | Feb 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 27, 1946 James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread & Roses” was published in Industrial Workers of the World’s (IWW) Industrial Solidarity. It was set to music and became an anthem of the labor and women’s movements, sung here by Joan...
by Susan | Feb 25, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 25, 1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. February 25, 1941 A general strike was called in Amsterdam to protest Nazi persecution of Jews...
by Susan | Feb 24, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 24, 1803 The US Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Marshall, decided the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison and confirmed the legal principle of judicial review—the ability of the Supreme Court to limit Congressional power by declaring legislation...
