January 6
1831
First world anti-slavery convention held.
1832
William Lloyd Garrison along with 15 others, founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society at the African Meeting House in Boston.
By 1833, Garrison helped establish the American Anti-Slavery Society with fellow abolitionists Arthur Tappan, Lewis Tappan, and Theodore Dwight Weld. This organization sent lecturers across the North to convince whites of slavery’s brutality.
1941
President Roosevelt introduces the term “Four Freedoms”: free speech & expression; free to worship; free from fear; & free from want.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 