Aug. 16. 1914: 3,000 anti-war socialists demonstrate against WWI in Buffalo, N.Y. 1967: Broadcasting from Cuba, Stokely Carmichael tells black Americans to prepare for "total revolution."

Aug. 17. 1985: Hormel meat-packing strike begins in Austin, Minn. The Hormel strike, generally regarded as labor's first major grassroots revolt against corporate downsizing, is suppressed after nearly a year by Hormel in cooperation with both the state and the workers' own national union.

Aug. 18. 1977: Steve Biko, leading student apartheid resister, arrested. He is later murdered while in custody. Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 1980: Alabama Creek regain ownership of "Hickory Grounds," headquarters of the entire Creek Nation before the forced removal of all tribes from the Southeast U.S. in 1830s.

Aug. 19. 1958: NAACP youth council begins sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Oklahoma.

Aug. 20. 1619: First black slaves land at Jamestown, Virginia. 1981: Crow Indians barricade Hwy. 313 near Hardin, Montana, to protest non-Indian fishing on Bighorn River in Crow Reservation.

Aug. 21. 1831: Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Virginia. 1965: Anti-Vietnam war protesters stage a sit-in in Vancouver, B.C., during a visit by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson.

Aug. 22. 1791: Slave revolt begins Haitian revolution. In 1804, Haiti becomes first free black country in the world. Due to pressure from Southern slaveholders, U.S. refuses recognition of Haiti until 1865. 1972: Police arrest 891 over two days as thousands of anti-war protesters disrupt the Miami Beach convention of Republican Party.

Aug. 23. 1927: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchist political prisoners, executed, Massachusetts. 1989: Over one million join hands across three Baltic States in 400-mile-long chain of resistance to USSR.

Aug. 24. 1967: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin throw 300 one-dollar bills from balcony onto floor of New York Stock Exchange, creating instant bedlam. 1970: UFW lettuce strike begins.

Aug. 25. 1689: 1,200 Iroquois warriors attack Montreal. 1967: FBI circulates memo detailing plans to "disrupt" Black Liberation groups. Results in infamous "COINTELPRO" program.

Aug. 26. 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment in U.S., extending right to vote to women. 1971: 6,000 turn out for a National Organization for Women-organized march in New York City for equal rights, with the demand "51 percent of everything."

Aug. 27. 1892: International Peace Bureau established, Rome, Italy. 1949: Anti-communist mob breaks up Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, N.Y.

Aug. 28. 1955: Emmett Till, a Detroit teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, is tortured and killed for allegedly talking to a white woman in an "improper" way. 1963: Martin Luther King delivers "I Have A Dream" speech at March On Washington for Jobs, Peace and Freedom. 250,000 attend.

Aug. 29. 1758: First Indian reservation established. 1991: Women call on women worldwide for peace. European Peace Caravan, Sarajevo, Bosnia.