This Day in Radical History- August 28th "I have a dream"+ Chicago police

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August 28
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1828: Birth of Leo Tolstoy, author and anarchist pacifist, according to the Russian calendar in use at this time, Yasnay, Polyana, Russia. Major influence on Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

1863: Two hundred thousand freed slaves, whites join in anti-slavery rally. Washington, D.C.

1892: Birth of Augustin Souchy, anarchist pacifist.

1898: Tsar Nicholas II proclaims international conference to make lasting peace, Russia. It didn't work, either.

1916: Birth of radical American sociologist C. Wright Mills, Waco, Texas.

1918: Big Bill Haywood and 14 other IWW labor activists sentenced to 20 years prison and fined, for draft obstruction.

1919: Seattle mayor demands "hang or incarcerate all anarchists for life."

1922: First commercial broadcast on radio is heard on station WEAF in NY City. Announcer H. M. Blackwell speaks for ten minutes on behalf of the Queensboro Realty Company, who paid $100 for the air-time.

1926: Marines land at Bluefields, Nicaragua to "protect U.S. interests".

1933: Filipino Labor Union leads 6,000 California lettuce workers out on strike, demanding 40-45 cents an hour, union recognition, and improved working conditions. Unity quickly dissolves when white strikers break away from the Filipinos and agree to arbitration. Facing the Filipinos alone, growers open a propaganda front, circulating stories claiming Communist infiltration of the union. Assisted by the highway patrol and armed vigilantes, they drive off 500 strikers. The struggle comes to a head in late September, when vigilantes attack the camp of Filipino union president Rufo Canete. They burn the camp to the ground and force strikers to flee for their lives. The police then raid union headquarters in Salinas, arresting scores of strikers and their leaders. But the strikers will hold out. The settlement gives them wages of 40 cents an hour and union recognition.

1955: Emmett Till, a Detroit teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, is tortured and killed for allegedly talking to a white woman in an "improper" way. The questionable trial that followed, and Mrs. Till's decision to display her son's mutilated remains during an open-casket funeral, help to mobilize opposition to segregation in America. Later immortalized in a song by Bob Dyland. Monee, Mississippi.

1961: Fifth Situationist International conference.

1963: Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech at March On Washington for Jobs, Peace and Freedom. 250,000 attend.

1964: Philadelphia: two days of black uprising.

1968: Vice Pres. Humphrey Humphrey gets the Democratic Presidential nomination. Rock and bottle throwing anti-war demonstrators converge on the Conrad Hilton Hotel, where squadrons of club-swinging Chicago police indiscriminately kicked and beat anything that moves. 178 arrested. Meanwhile, between August 26 through 29, thousands of protesters gather in Grant and Lincoln Parks to demonstrate against the Vietnam War. In addition to war protests, hippies objected to the 11 PM curfew, which prevented them from camping out in the park.

1976: Sixty thousand join Peace People demonstrations, Belfast and Dublin, Ireland.

1990: Marine reservist Erik Glen Larsen declares conscientious objection at press conference in San Francisco.

[Demeter]

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