“Ann Jarvis of Appalachia founded Mother’s Day in 1858 to promote sanitation in response to high infant mortality. After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe made a Mother’s Day call to women to protest the carnage of war.” #MothersDayCallForPeace
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#tdih 2011 Scholastic Inc. officially cut their partnership with coal industry after campaign by Rethinking Schools and others to demand Scholastic stop distributing free lessons to 4th grade classrooms across the U.S. about the 'benefits' of coal use.
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'We see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic & political power . . . we have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.' -- Dr. M L King #tdih 1968 Poor People's Campaign began ⬇️
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TDIH Locker Code! 20 years ago today, the Detroit Pistons' Joe Dumars became the 10th player in NBA history to play 1,000 games with the same franchise