Mar. 14. 1968: Commission report publishes evidence of large-scale extermination of tribes (poisoning and machine-gunning) by Brazil's Indian Protection Service. Nearly 30 years later, such attacks are still alarmingly common.

Mar. 15. 1985: Two-to-one vote against construction of new nuclear power plant, Bakersfield, California.

Mar. 16. 1827: First black newspaper in U.S., Freedom's Journal, published in New York City by John B. Russwurm. 1995: U.S. nuclear-powered submarine collides with a freighter near Hong Kong.

Mar. 17. 1974: 3,000 Ethiopian women workers march for equal pay and better labor conditions. 1996: 30,000 march in Villahermosa, Mexico, in support of a campaign to blockade state-owned oil wells that had displaced thousands of poor people.

Mar. 18. 1871: 1,000 women successfully blockade cannons in what becomes the "Paris Commune," Paris, France. 1937: Women clerks occupy Woolworth's department store to demand 40-hour work week, New York, NY.

Mar. 19. 1997: After heated public opposition, Seattle School Board reluctantly votes to rescind a new policy soliciting corporate advertising in schools.

Mar. 20. 1815: Switzerland declares permanent neutrality in all wars. 1983: 150,000 (1% of country's population) join in anti-nuclear rallies across Australia.

Mar. 21. 1960: South African police kill 89 protesters in Sharpeville and other towns during protests of apartheid pass laws. 1995: On the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, newly democratic South Africa establishes March 21 as Human Rights Day.

Mar. 22. 1958: Women demonstrate against pass laws, South Africa. 1980: 30,000 march in Washington, D.C. against reintroduction of draft registration.

Mar. 23. 1997: Between two and seven Univ. of East Timor students are killed by Indonesian police while attempting to meet in a hotel with U.N. human rights envoy Jamsheed Marker.

Mar. 24. 1956: Danilo Dolci and 22 others are tried in a Sicily court for the nonviolent direct action of attempting to repair an old road without proper government authorization. 1965: First Vietnam teach-in, University of Michigan.

Mar. 25. 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. 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, and skinning bodies to tan hides for souvenirs. 1964: An earthquake measuring 8.6 on the Richter scale, one of the largest ever recorded, flattens Anchorage, Alaska. The quake is felt as far away as Seattle.