(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)
World Population Day, sponsored by the United Nations to focus attendion on population issues.
July 11
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The Niagara Movement, precursor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was founded in Buffalo, New York.
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1968
The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The federal appeals court in Boston reversed the convictions of Dr. Benjamin Spock and Michael Ferber who had been found guilty of conspiring to counsel evasion of the military draft in 1968. The judges considered his activity covered under his right to free speech opposing the Vietnam War.
read A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority co-authored by Dr. Spock (1967)
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 