Sep. 3. 1838: Frederick Douglass, famous African-American abolitionist, escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland, to freedom in the North.

Sep. 4. 1626: First patent in American history, for device to restrain Indians, to W. Claiborne, Jamestown, Virginia. 1966: National Guard confronts white supremacist mobs in Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois. 1982: 10,000 dance on nuclear reactor site, Gorleben, West Germany. 1996: Scattered protests around the country greet latest gratuitous U.S. bombing of Iraq. About 100 gather at the Federal Building in Seattle; in Washington, D.C., eight are arrested for dumping buckets of rubble on the White House lawn.

Sep. 5. 1877: Crazy Horse assassinated at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during an attempt to confine him in a guardhouse. 1917: In 48 coordinated raids across the U.S., federal agents seize records and arrest hundreds of I.W.W. (Wobbly) activists for the crime of labor organizing and "obstructing" World War I.

Sep. 6. 1860: Jane Addams, suffragist and social activist, born, Chicago.

Sep. 7. 1968: For the first time, feminist protestors interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, NJ. 1990: Ploughshares Two activists jailed 15 months for disabling F-111 bomber, Oxford, Britain.

Sep. 8. 1797: San Fernando Mission, Calif., established near a village of Anchois Indians. Priests remove tacky Indians and redecorate with strip malls. 1965: Strike of Filipino and Mexican farmworkers against grape growers in Delano, Calif. marks the start of a successful five- year strike by United Farm Workers throughout California.