by Susan | Feb 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 6, 1956 Autherine Lucy was excluded from classes (She was planning on obtaining a Masters degree in Library Science) just three days after becoming the first black person allowed to attend the University of Alabama. Her suspension “for her own...
by Susan | Feb 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 5, 1631 Roger Williams arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. Williams, a Puritan, worked as a teacher before serving briefly as a colorful pastor at Plymouth and then at Salem. Within a few years of his arrival, he alarmed the Puritan...
by Susan | Feb 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 4, 1987 The U.S. House of Representatives overrode President Ronald Reagan’s second veto (401-26) of the Clean Water Act. The law provided funds for communities to build waste treatment facilities and to clean up waterways. February 4, 1990 The Colombian...
by Susan | Feb 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 3, 1893 Abigail Ashbrook of Willingboro, New Jersey, refused to pay taxes because, as a woman, she was denied the right to vote. February 3, 1964 In New York City, 464,000 students, mostly black and Puerto Rican, comprising nearly half the citywide...
by Susan | Feb 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 2, 1989 The USSR’s nine years of participation in the war in Afghanistan ended as Red Army troops withdrew from the capital city of Kabul, driven out principally by the insurgent mujahadin, who were armed through covert U.S. funding. By the time the...
