June 10. 1940: Death of black nationalist Marcus Garvey. 1965: Chicago school segregation is protested by mass demonstrations. 1975: Release of Rockefeller Commission report detailing a secret CIA-sponsored domestic program, CHAOS, that monitored over 300,000 anti-war dissidents in the U.S.

June 11. 1963: Gov. George Wallace blocks entrance of two black students to Univ. of alabama. 1971: 19 month Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, ends. 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts, Philippines, becoming the first act of nature ever to permanently close a U.S. military installation.

June 12. 1963: NACCP leader Medgar Evans assassinated, Jackson, Miss. His murderer is not convicted until 1994, when--as Hollywood teaches us--white people finally win justice for the Negro. 1964: Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment after conviction for "sabotaging" South African government. 1967: U.S. Supreme Court overturns a Virginia law banning interracial marriage. 1971: Mexican police and death squads kill 43 student protestors in Mexico City. 1982: A crowd estimated as large as 2 million rallies in New York's Central Park to support nuclear disarmament. A parallel rally at Peace Arch Park, on the B.C./Washington border, draws 50,000. 1985: 1,756 people arrested in 150 cities over two days for protests against U.S. arming and financing of Nicaraguan Contras.

June 14. 1928: Ernesto "Che" Guevara born, Cuba. 1945: U.S. Supreme Court rules compulsory flag saluting by children to be illegal. "Flag Day" is born. 1954: The Pledge of Allegiance is officially amended to include the phrase "under god" between "one nation" and "indivisible." 1982: 1,653 arrested at U.S., U.S.S.R., French, and Chinese Missions to United Nations, New York City, in "Blockade the Bombmakers" nuclear disarmament sit-ins.

June 15. 1898: U.S. Congress passes Newland's Resolution to annex sovereign nation of Hawai'i. 1963: Rev. Mance Jackson leads 1,000 from Mt. Zion Baptist Church to Westlake Park in Seattle's first civil rights march.

June 16. 1976: Soweto Massacre, South Africa. 700 black children killed while protesting requirement to learn Afrikaans language in their schools.