August 28, 1963 - Josephine Baker attended the 1963 March on Washington. She wore her WWII Free French uniform. pic.twitter.com/qAh2M2x4lJ

— Flashbak.com (@aflashbak) August 28, 2021

Baker's medals, worn here:
Légion d'honneur, Croix de guerre (39-45), Résistance medal, Free French voluntary service medal, and the commemorative 39-45 medal.

(And some fantastic specs.) https://t.co/dsWeNVT3fe

— Laura O'Brien (@lrbobrien) January 19, 2021

📸: Josephine Baker and Lena Horne at the March on Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. pic.twitter.com/vIUk9tGZB7

— Black Women Radicals (@blkwomenradical) December 9, 2019

You know, friends, that I do not lie to you when I tell you I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents.  And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

She will be the sixth woman - and the first American born - to be inducted at the Panthéon.

I just granted posthumous pardons for the Martinsville seven--young Black men executed 70 years ago after speedy trials by all-white juries.

This is about righting the wrongs of our criminal justice system. I hope it brings some small measure of peace. [_link] pic.twitter.com/tuuKnlSmwv

— Governor Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) August 31, 2021

Virginia governor pardons seven Black men executed in 1951 for rape of a white woman | The Guardian |

'Sapere aude'

Super article by @PreetKGillMP on the Hidden Heroes campaign & specifically her call for a statue for Sophia Duleep Singh - not one suffragette of ethnic minority heritage has been commemorated."Why We Need New Statues Reflecting Britain's Diverse History" [_link]

— Zehra Zaidi (@Zehra_Zaidi) September 1, 2021

Ninety-nine percent of people arrested by Beverly Hills `safe streets' unit were Black, suit says [_link]

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) September 1, 2021

Very proud that West Point is doing this.

As Confederate statues come down, West Point honors Buffalo Soldiers [_link]

— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) September 1, 2021

An Emmett Till historical marker in Mississippi will be repaired after being knocked off the pole that supports it. [_link]

— ABC News (@ABC) September 3, 2021

Compare the hatred on the face of the young white woman to the calm, courageous dignity of the young black woman. [_link]

— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) September 4, 2021

On that date as a new immigrant, I started 7th grade in a parochial school in a St. Louis suburb .... one heckuva adventurous journey.

'Sapere aude'

"Czechia has not had this reckoning with its past when it comes to communism, nor the Holocaust."

A book by a Czech historian challenges not so much established national narratives of the Terezin ghetto and Holocaust, but a virtual wall of silence.[_link]

— Balkan Insight (@BalkanInsight) September 3, 2021

In the early 1900s, UK and US women often ran Tea Rooms, an acceptable form of employment in a limited world for females, which soon became subversive spaces linked to suffrage campaigns and women's rights #WomensArt pic.twitter.com/trKgoCXnDa

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) August 30, 2021

19th Century Peace Movement and Women Suffrage

Bas les armes! (1899): The late and troublesome birth of a non-bestseller

Bertha von Suttner's famous anti-war novel, Die Waffen nieder! (1889), was a bestseller that was translated at the time in most languages. However, surprisingly, it took ten years before a French edition, Bas les armes!, was published (1899). Recent French biographers of Bertha von Suttner barely acknowledge the existence of the translation. Moreover, the first reprint in more than a century of Bas les armes! (2015) is virtually silent about how the original translation and publication came about. The story is told for the first time in "Bertha von Suttner's anti-war novel in French - "Bas les armes! (1899): The late and troublesome birth of a non-bestseller", by Peter van den Dungen.