June 7
1712
The Pennsylvania Assembly bans the import of slaves in the colony.
1892
Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ”separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
1893
In his first act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and was forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg.
a young Ghandi
read “Pietermaritzburg: The Beginning of Gandhi’s Odyssey”
1905
Norway gains independence from Sweden by nonviolent means.
1966
James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, was shot by a sniper while on a lone “March Against Fear” through the South.
1997
Seven activists are arrested for distributing copies of the Bill of Rights outside the Bradbury Science Museum, part of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the primary nuclear research facility in the U.S.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 