by Susan | Feb 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 14, 1974 The Soviet authorities formally charged Russian writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn with treason one day after expelling him from the country. The writer, 55, who had already spent ten years in prison under Stalin for his dissident writings, had been under...
by Susan | Feb 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 12, 1793 Congress passed the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbade slavery, to forcibly return slaves who had escaped from other states to their original owners. February 12, 1909 The National Association for the...
by Susan | Feb 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 11, 1978 Native Americans began The Longest Walk, a march from Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay to Washington, D.C. The Walk was intended to be a reminder of the forced removal of American Indians from their homelands across the continent, and drew...
by Susan | Feb 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 8, 1968 In what is now known as the Orangeburg Massacre, three black students were killed and fifty wounded in a confrontation with highway patrolmen at a South Carolina State University rally supporting 15 civil rights protesters arrested the day before at...
by Susan | Feb 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 7, 1971 In a national referendum in which only men could vote, women in Switzerland were granted the right to vote in national elections and to stand for...
