Today in history

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

June 25

1938
The Fair Labor Standards Act sets the minimum wage at 25 cents per hour and prohibits child labor.

1955
The South African Freedom Charter was adopted at the Congress of the People in Johannesburg.

“We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people….”

1978

In response to passage of an anti-gay ordinance in Miami, 240,000 people marched in San Francisco, the first large-scale version of that city’s annual Gay Freedom Day Parade.

read more about the Gay Parades of the Seventies

(pictures and stories)

1987

Conscientious objector Michaelis Maraggakis jailed four years for refusing compulsory military service, Thessaloniki, Greece.