Peace & Justice History

July 17, 1970 - Young Lords to Lincoln Hospital The Young Lords Party entered the Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, NYC. The hospital, located in a condemned and dilapidated building,...

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July 16, 1877 - Railroad Strike 1877 Firemen and brakemen for the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads refused to work, and refused to let replacements take their jobs...

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July 15, 1978 - Longest Walk arrives in DC The Longest Walk, a peaceful transcontinental trek for Native American justice, which had begun with a few hundred departing Alcatraz Island,...

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July 14, 1955 - Air Pollution Control Act The Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 became law, the first in a series of laws that ultimately became the Clean Air Act in 1963. This first law...

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July 13, 1985 - 1st Live Aid concert The first Live Aid concert raised $75 million for agricultural and technical assistance to Africa, many times what was expected....

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July 8, 1958 - Omaha Action In an effort called "Omaha Action," by the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), anti-nuclear activist. Don Fortenberry was arrested after climb...

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July 7, 1903 - Mother Jones leads March of the Mill Children Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones led the "March of the Mill Children" over 100 miles from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's...

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July 6, 1944 - Irene Morgan refuses Irene Morgan, a 28-year-old black woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus eleven years before Rosa Parks did so. . .

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July 5, 1989 - Oliver North sentenced Former National Security Council aide Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in the Iran-Contra scandal.....

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July 4, 1969 - “Give Peace a Chance" "Give Peace a Chance" by the Plastic Ono Band was released in the United Kingdom. The song was recorded May 31, 1969, during the "Bed-In"...

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June 30, 1966 - The Fort Hood Three The first GIs known as the Fort Hood Three, U.S. Army Privates James Johnson, Dennis Mora and David Samas—refused to be sent to Vietnam...

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June 29, 1963 - Porton Down "Walk On" A mass "walk-on" (trespass) was organized at a chemical and biological warfare facility in Porton Down, England. These weaponized agents had been...

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June 28, 1969 - Stonewall rebellion Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, being subjected to routine anti-homosexual harassment by the NYC police.

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June 27, 1973 - Nixon's enemies list President Nixon's former White House counsel, John W. Dean III, told the Senate Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list." He released a 1971..

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June 26, 1955 - South African Freedom Charter The South African Freedom Charter was adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown near Johannesburg."We, the People of South Africa,...

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June 25, 1978 - 240,000 in San Francisco for gay rights 240,000 people marched in San Francisco in opposition to an anti-gay statewide ballot Proposition 6 initiated by State Senator John...

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June 24, 1980 - General strike El Salvador A general strike was held in El Salvador against death squads, primarily military or paramilitary units carrying out political assassinations and...

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June 23, 1972 - Iconic photo from Vietnam published Life magazine published a photo by Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut of children running from an attack with Napalm, an incendiary chemical weapon...

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June 23, 1966 - Grenada, MS movie theatre sit-down High school students in Grenada, Mississippi,tried to purchase tickets in thedownstairs “white” sectionof the local movie theatre.Black moviegoers...

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June 22, 1987 - No U.S. Okinawa base At least 8,000 peace protesters formed a 10-mile human chain around the U.S. air base on Okinawa, an island that is part of Japan. Subsequent…read more

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June 21, 1964 - Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three young Freedom Summer workers, disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while registering...

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June 20, 1967 - Muhammad Ali convicted Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston, Texas, of violating the Selective Service law by refusing induction into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam

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June 19, 1964 - Civil Rights Act approved The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. The new law, initiated and passed through...

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June 19, 1865 - Juneteenth Known among African Americans as Juneteenth (also Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, or Emancipation Day), this is the day enslaved people...

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June 18, 1941 - Call to Negro America to March... Less than two weeks before a scheduled march on Washington, its chief organizer, (Asa) A. Philip Randolph, was invited to the White House byPresident..

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June 17, 1972 - The Watergate Break-In In the early morning five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at theWatergate complex in Washington,...

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June 16, 1976 - The Soweto Massacre South African police opened fire on black students peacefully protesting the requirement to learn Afrikaans, the language of the small white...

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June 15, 1942 - CORE founded The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)was founded in Chicago by a group of students including James Farmer and Bayard Rustin. They found...

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