Happenings
- POTW exhibit at WSU through April 5, 2013
- POTW exhibit in Portland May 3 - June 14, 2013
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Women peacemakers born today
- 1879 Violet McNaughton (née Jackson) born Borden, Kent, England (d. 1968). Canadian journalist; WILPF leader; farm women organizer.
- 1907 Shirley Graham DuBois born Evansville, IN (d. 1977). African-American/Cherokee musician; playwright; biographer; peace activist; Communist; exiled to Ghana, 1961; promoted African unity.
- 1914 Daisy Bates (née Gatson) born Huttig, AR. As head of Arkansas NAACP, leader of Little Rock desegregation, 1957.
- 1923 Edith Bell born Hamburg, Germany. Holocaust survivor; Raging Granny; WILPF leader illegally shadowed by FBI.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1838 Anne Weston proposed first nonviolent newspaper in Boston, MA.
- 1944 Mme. Dortel-Claudot proposed idea of Pax Christi.
- 1981 Watchfires for Liberty lit in Washington DC by Congressional Union.
- 1983 Australian Women for Survival organized peace camp at Pine Gap, Northern Territory.
- 1984 Helen Woodson arrested in Missouri missile silo protest, resulting in 17-year sentence for civil disobedience.
- 1984 28 Lebanese women hold a 3-day vigil at UN.
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