March 12
295 AD
Maximilian, a Christian, was beheaded by Romans for refusing military service in Thevesta, North Africa.
1912
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) wins Lawrence, Massachusetts “Bread & Roses” textile strike after nine weeks involving 32,000 strikers.
IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addresses a strike rally
Bread & Roses victory parade
“Bread and Roses” became the strikers slogan and inspired a poem by by the same name.
1945
Ann Frank dies at Bergen-Belsen.
1945
New York becomes the first state to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment.
1956
Nearly a hundred Congressional Representatives & Senators sign the “Southern Manifesto,” vowing to fight the Supreme Court school desegregation decision.
1978
One hundred fifty thousand demonstrated against nuclear reactor in Lemoniz, Spain.
1982
300 women workers stage slow-down at Control Data in Seoul, Korea, protesting the firing of their union president.
2000
Pope John Paul II asks God’s forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 