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. 1969: The first Chicano youth conference in history is held by the Crusade for Justice.

Mar. 28. 1915: Emma Goldman arrested for telling first US audience how to use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and an organizer of the 1919 Seattle General Strike, dies in Beijing, China.

Mar. 29. 1923: War Resisters League founded, New York City. 1987: Vietnam Veterans For Peace marching from Jinotega reach Wicuili, Nicaragua.

Mar. 30. 1867: Birth of Jessie Hodder, prison reformist. 1967: Gurindji people occupy part of Wave Hill Station, Northern Territory, Australia.

Mar. 31. 1985: 300,000 demonstrate in peace rallies across Australia. 1992: ADAPT (American Disabled for Accessible Public Transport) sit in at Tennessee Health Care Association to fight health cuts, Nashville Tenn.

Apr. 1. 1866: Congress overrides Pres. Andrew Johnson's veto of Civil Rights Bill and gives equal rights to all men born in the US except Indians. 1955: Boycott of segregated schools begins, South Africa.

Apr. 2. 1966: 100,000 Vietnamese demonstrate in Da Nang against US and South Vietnamese governments. Civil unrest spreads to Hue and Saigon. 1982: President Reagan authorizes much broader powers for federal government to withhold public information on "national security" grounds.

Apr. 3. 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr., launches a voter registration drive in Birmingham, Alabama. Police Chief "Bull" Connor responds with fire hoses and attack dogs. 1969: Blacks riot in Chicago in response to police brutality.

Apr. 4. 1914: Unemployed riot in Union Square, New York City. 1967: Martin Luther King, Jr., preaches against Vietnam War and calls for common cause between civil rights and anti-war movements, Riverside Church, New York City.

Apr. 5. 1911: Victor Berger, Socialist Congressperson (Milwaukee), demands withdrawal of US troops from Mexican border, where they threatened the Mexican Revolution. 1992: Over 500,000 march on Washington, D.C. to support women's reproductive rights and equality.

Apr. 6. 1832: Black Hawk War begins when Sauk/Fox return to plant traditional corn fields and are repulsed by whites. 1967: Tens of thousands protesting Vietnam War jeer Vice President Humphrey in West Berlin, West Germany.

Apr. 7. 1809: Birth of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades Conservation activist. 1948: World Health Organization (WHO) formed in Geneva, with the stated goal of making health care available to everyone in the world by the year 2000.

Apr. 8. 1712: Slave revolt, New York City. 1973: A Harris Poll reports 51% in US support the American Indian Movement protesters occupying Wounded Knee; 21% support the federal government.

Apr. 9. 1969: Harvard students take over the campus administration building, ousting the deans. 1995: Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara acknowledges that "we were terribly wrong" to prosecute war in Vietnam.