This Day in Radical History- Sept.19th-Francis Farmer, Chaplin, & Seattle

[underpants]

September 19
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1833: Mary Jemison, "race traitor," adopted Senecan "white Indian," dies.

1853: Cow Creek band of Umpqua tribe signs treaty ceding lands in Southwest Oregon.

1865: Chinese coal miners driven out of Black Diamond, Wash.

1892: Alexander Berkman sentenced to 22 years in prison for attempt on life of Frick.

1913: Birth of Seattle native, actress, activist and lobotomy victim Frances Farmer.

1931: Japan invades Chinese province of Manchuria.

1940: Journalist "discovers" Jay Fox, the "sole surviving anarchist" farming at Home Colony, Washington.

1952: Due to his political beliefs, U.S. bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering to the country after a trip to England.

1955: Argentina ousts dictator Juan Peron.

1957: First underground nuclear test, at Nevada Test Site, U.S.

1966: Joan Baez leads 160 Negro children to Mississippi elementary school.

1969: A bomb causes serious damage to the new Federal Office Building in New York City.

1973: Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May, New Jersey) goes on the air.

1974: U.S. intelligence sources reveal that striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabilizing the Allende government during a bloody 1973 coup that led to 16 years of brutal military dictatorship, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA.

1977: Lawsuit filed which would become "University of California vs Bakke," a groundbreaking claim of "reverse discrimination" by a white prospective law student (Bakke) passed over for admission due to affirmative action.

1981: Three hundred thousand march in Washington to protest Pres. Reagan's race policies.

1985: Italo Calvino dies in Siena, Italy. While working on several communist periodicals, he began writing his own stories, becoming one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century.

1985: The first of two killer earthquakes hit Mexico City--this one, 8.1 on the Richter scale, followed the next day by one measuring 7.5--crumbling buildings (damages estimated at more than one billion dollars) and killing almost 10,000 people.

1988: Burma rebels.

1990: Remains of 828 dead, radioactive beagles from 1950s animal experiments at UC-Davis are buried at Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

1994: U.S. troops land, again, in Haiti.

1996: IBM extends health care coverage and other benefits to partners of its lesbian/gay workers. Largest U.S. business to date to adopt policy.

2001: Some 5,000 march in a nighttime procession through Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, mourning the dead of Sept. 11 and calling for a non- military response by the U.S.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17576#19

[Atlas Mugged]

1. Funny..

I was at Mary Jemison's grave just a couple of weeks ago. A friend was visiting and we took her to Letchwoth Park, about 20 minutes from here, where it's located. The gorge in the park is called 'The Grand Canyon of the East', with good reason.





Mary's story:

http://www.letchworthparkhistory.com/jem.html