December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students at the University of California, Berkeley December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students at the University of California, Berkeley
“One conscientious reporter counted the marble steps as he followed a girl whose head jarred sickeningly as she was dragged down.”
Dec 3, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
December 2, 2001: Enron Files for Bankruptcy December 2, 2001: Enron Files for Bankruptcy
“Nobody ever said capitalism was pretty.”
Dec 2, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested
“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”
Dec 1, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
November 30, 1999: World Trade Organization Meeting in Seattle Disrupted By Anti-Globalization Protests November 30, 1999: World Trade Organization Meeting in Seattle Disrupted By Anti-Globalization Protests
“The scenes from Seattle are something not seen since the sixties, but in their totality unimaginable even then.”
Nov 30, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
November 29, 1980: Dorothy Day Dies November 29, 1980: Dorothy Day Dies
“All the gamblers in a Greenwich Village bar admired her because she could drink any one of them under the table.”
Nov 29, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
November 28, 1960: Richard Wright Dies November 28, 1960: Richard Wright Dies
“Mr. Wright’s style often reminds one of a stream ‘riled’ by a heavy storm.”
Nov 28, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
November 27, 1978: San Francisco Councilman Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone Are Assassinated November 27, 1978: San Francisco Councilman Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone Are Assassinated
“Milk spoke to and for his homosexual supporters, but he believed he was working for a greater good: the liberation of the surrounding society.”
Nov 27, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
November 26, 1863: Abraham Lincoln Proclaims Thanksgiving Day November 26, 1863: Abraham Lincoln Proclaims Thanksgiving Day
“Thanksgiving Day has not a genuine ring. Somehow it sounds ill-suited to the times.”
Nov 26, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
November 25, 1947: The Hollywood Ten Are Blacklisted After Refusing to Testify to HUAC November 25, 1947: The Hollywood Ten Are Blacklisted After Refusing to Testify to HUAC
“A blacklist is an illegal instrument of terror which can exist only by sufferance of and connivance with the federal government.”
Nov 25, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin Publishes ‘On the Origin of Species’ November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin Publishes ‘On the Origin of Species’
“Mr. Charles Darwin is probably the man who has done most to make the nineteenth century famous, full as it has been of wonders.”
Nov 24, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner