May 12
1968
The Poor People’s Campaign, organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began when contingents of the poor, mainly from the south, began pitching tents in a “Resurrection City” near the Lincoln Memorial. It was dismantled by police on June 24.
1975
Gonzalo Arias chains himself to Spanish gate in protest of closure of Spain/Gibraltar frontier.
1985
Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as the first woman rabbi in the Conservative Jewish movement.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 