Mar. 23. 1918: Trial begins of 101 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union activists for opposition to World War I. 1921: War Resisters International founded, Bilthoven, Netherlands. 1969: Trial of seven Mohawks for demonstrating on international bridge between U.S. and Canada. 1970: President Nixon declares national emergency, orders 30,000 troops to New York City to break Postal Wildcat Strike. 1974: Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) founded.

Mar. 24. 1965: First Vietnam teach-in, University of Michigan. 1978: The Wampanoag claim to land in Cape Cod (Mass.) is dismissed by U.S. District Court in Boston because they had no tribal status in 1869. Tribal status is finally granted nine years later, but without most of their land. 1980: Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated by U.S.-supported rightists, San Salvador, El Salvador.

Mar. 25. 1894: Coxey's army of the unemployed begins march on Washington, D.C., demanding economic reform. 1911: 146 immigrant sweatshop workers killed in the Triangle Shirt Waist fire, New York City. Incident leads to widespread reforms in working conditions. 1965: After a weeks-long struggle against local police, the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, ends triumphantly with a 50,000 person demonstration in Montgomery. Afterwards, a white organizer, Viola Liuzzo, is murdered by Klansmen while driving demonstrators between Selma and Montgomery. She had come to Selma from Michigan to join the protest.

Mar. 26. 1804: First official notice to Indians from U.S. government that all Indians must move west of Mississippi River. 1966: Over 50,000 march in Fifth Avenue Peace Parade in New York City. 1986: U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ruling that an Oklahoma law permitting the dismissal of teachers for speaking out on gay rights is unconstitutional.

Mar. 27. 1814: Massacre of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Bend). Gen. Andrew Jackson overwhelms Creek Indian forces; to count the Creek dead, whites cut off their noses, piling 557 of them, then skin the bodies to tan hides for souvenirs. 1966: 20,000 Buddhists in silent march for peace, Hue, South Vietnam. 1988: Mordechai Vanunu jailed 18 years for disclosing Israeli nuclear weapons program. He was been kept incommunicado, in solitary confinement, for the next ten years. 1998: 5,000 demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and other political prisoners in the U.S.

Mar. 28. 1915: Emma Goldman arrested for telling her U.S. audience how to use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine. 1968: Spanish university students march against fascist government of Generalissimo Franco. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of the 1919 Seattle General Strike, dies in Beijing, China. 1979: Plant failure and partial meltdown results in release of radioactivity at Three Mile Island nuclear power facility, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Mar. 29. 1987: Vietnam Veterans For Peace marching from Jinotega reach Wicuili, Nicaragua.