Aug. 30. 1964: Democratic Party convention refuses to seat black protest delegation in place of all-white delegation from state of Mississippi. Outside, 200 protesters rally to oppose Vietnam War. Atlantic City, NJ.

Aug. 31. 1895: First issue of Julius Wyland's Kansas-based socialist newspaper, An Appeal to Reason, is published. 1962: 20,000 call for general strike in the event of civil war, Algeria.

Sep. 1. 1947: 3,000 demonstrate for No More War, Berlin. 1997: Kurdish and British activists blockade an arms trade exhibition outside London. 89 arrested.

Sep. 2. 1921: Mine owners bomb striking West Virginia miners by plane. 1981: U.N. Human Rights Commission rules that Canada's Indian Act violates international human rights.

Sep. 3. 1838: Frederick Douglass, famous African-American abolitionist, escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to freedom in the north. 1997: Kurdish Peace Train demonstration broken up by Turkish police in Istanbul.

Sep. 4. 1626: First patent in American history, for device to restrain natives, to W. Claiborne, Jamestown, Virginia. 1978: Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear weapons and power in Red Square, Moscow, and on White House lawn, Washington D.C.

Sep. 5. 1917: In 48 coordinated raids across the country, federal agents seize records and arrest hundreds of IWW (Wobbly) activists for the crime of labor organizing and "obstructing" World War I.

Sep. 6. 1963: Anti-nuclear march from Glasgow, Scotland, arrives in London, and attempts to present a dummy missile to the British Imperial War Museum. 1988: Seven arrested in protests at uranium processing plant, Fernald, Ohio. The Fernald plant was later revealed to be among the worst polluters in the entire U.S. nuclear industry.

Sep. 7. 1958: First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization. 1990: RCMP moves in on First Nations encampment in southern Alberta, ending a month-long native attempt to protect sacred land by diverting the Old Man River around a partially completed dam.

Sep. 8. 1763: Stepan Glotlov lands on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and attempts to persuade natives to pay tribute to Imperial government. They refuse and attack the Russians. 1978: 3,000 unarmed demonstrators killed by Shah's troops, Tehran, Iran.

Sep. 9. 1739: Slave revolt in Stono, South Carolina. 1973: Beginning of five days of riots at Attica State Prison, New York. 43 killed.

Sep. 10. 1897: Nineteen striking miners killed, 40 wounded by sheriff's deputies at Latimer, Penn. 1996: First weekly issue of Eat the State! published in Seattle, Wash.

Sep. 11. 1942: Underground Norwegian trade union newspapers arrange thousands of letters to government rejecting Nazification. 1990: U.S. anthropologist Myma Mack murdered by U.S.-paid Guatemalan military.

Sep. 12. 1932: Unemployed people march on grocery stores and take food, Toledo, Ohio. 1970: Comandos Armados Liberacion bombs U.S. governors convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico.