Aug. 19. 1969: Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale is arrested in San Francisco and charged with murder.

Aug. 20. 1995: On two days' notice, hundreds of civil rights activists rally in downtown Seattle outside a Rainier Club appearance for California Gov. Pete Wilson, in town to raise funds for a presidential campaign based on his record of scapegoating immigrants and people of color.

Aug. 21. 1831: Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia. 1971: Black liberation activist George Jackson and five others are assassinated by prison guards, San Quentin, Calif. 1983: Opposition leader Benigno Aquino assassinated upon return from exile, Manila, Philippines. 1991: Mass demonstrations overcome attempted Communist coup, Moscow, Russia.

Aug. 22. 1791: Slave revolt begins Haitian revolution. In 1804 Haiti becomes first free black nation-state in the world. Due to pressure from slaveholders, U.S. refuses to recognize Haiti until 1865--23 years longer than its current refusal to recognize the government of Cuba. 1972: Police arrest 891 over two days as thousands of anti-war protestors disrupt the Miami Beach convention of the Republican Party.

Aug. 23. 1927: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchist political prisoners, executed, Massachusetts. 1933: British rulers release Mohandas Gandhi from Indian jail after a one-week fast. 1989: Over one million join hands across three Baltic states in 400-mile-long chain of resistance to the USSR.

Aug. 24. 1967: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin throw 300 one-dollar bills from balcony onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, creating instant bedlam. The balcony was promptly glassed in to prevent future outbursts of natural selection.

Aug. 25. 1967: FBI circulates memo detailing plans to "disrupt" Black Liberation groups.