Today in history

May 6

1916
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman started the No Conscription League in the U.S. This was prior to American troops’ being sent to Europe in what is known as World War I.
Read the No-Conscription League Manifesto

Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman

1944
Mohandas Gandhi released from his last imprisonment, India.
1970
Congressional hearings begin on ratification of Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. 1970
Two African American students are murdered by government troops at Jackson State University in Mississippi. The two students were watching anti-Vietnam War demonstrators from a nearby dormitory tower.
1973
14 cities across France saw demonstrations against their country’s nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific Ocean.
1977
415 arrested at proposed nuclear site in Seabrook, NH
1979
125,000 rally in Washington, D.C. to oppose nuclear power.