Today in history

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

June 8

1917

The Women’s Peace Crusade organized a Sunday mass demonstration in Glasgow; from two sides of the city processions wound their way toward Glasgow Green accompanied by bands and banners. They merged into one massive colorful demonstration of some 14,000 people protesting World War I.

1859

Vietnamese guerillas ambushed two U.S. “advisers,” making them the first U.S. casualties since 1946 in Vietnam.

1965

Roy Wilkins became the executive director of NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He had edited the organization’s magazine, Crisis, for fifteen years, and was one of the most articulate of civil rights leaders.     the Roy Wilkins Memorial in Minneapolis

1996
The International Court Of Justice declared that in almost all circumstances use of nuclear weapons is illegal.