Peace and Justice History – July 10
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Today in Peace and Justice History
July 10, 1976
It was not a good night for racism: Less than a week after the nation’s bicentennial, Ku Klux Klan members near Georgetown, Ill., gathered for what turned into an ill-fated cross-burning. First, the group’s meeting started an hour late. Then, when the Klansmen prepared to plant their cross, they found the symbol of intolerance too heavy to move. Three hours later, after the cross had been chopped down to a more portable size, the white supremacists planted it into the ground, but it would not ignite. The light of hatred, for whatever reason, refused to burn. Ultimately, the Klan members gave up and went home.
 More on the ugly history of the KKK |
July 10, 1985
The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior (named after a Native American legend), was blown up in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, tragically killing one person and sinking the ship. French President François Mitterand authorized the deadly strike. Its goal: to stop the environmental organization’s plans to protest France’s South Pacific nuclear bomb tests.
Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior: Can’t keep a pro-planet ship down; |
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