Today in history

(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.

June 10

1854
At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, James Augustine Healy was ordained as the first African-American Roman Catholic priest.

1917
The Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland launched a three-week campaign of street meetings and demonstrations in dozens of towns to build support for peace in the midst of World War I.

1963
“Equal Pay Act of 1963” passed and signed into law; guarantees women equal pay for equal work

1971
A twenty-one year old trade embargo with mainland China is lifted by President Nixon.

1980

Nelson Mandela‘s first writings while imprisoned on South Africa’s Robben Island were smuggled out and made public. Reflections in Prison    Nelson Mandela’s cell on Robben Island where he spent 17 years

1990
50,000 attend first March for the Animals in Washington, D.C.