(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)
June 18
1959
A Federal Court rules that an Arkansas attempt to close a school rather than desegregate it is unconstitutional.
1970
The U.S. voting age would be lowered to 18 as a result of the passage by Congress of the 26th amendment to the constitution.
1979
SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty), an agreement to put limits on both America’s and the Soviet Union’s long-range missiles and bombers, was signed by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. This was the first arms-reduction treaty between the two superpowers.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 