Sep. 24. 1957: After state troopers had prevented integration in high school, Pres. Eisenhower dispatches 11,000 Army troops and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to enforce court-ordered desegregation and escort 9 black schoolchildren to class in Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas. White segregationists and the state militia are kept at bay by over 1,000 paratroopers. The army remains for the entire school term.

Sep. 25. 1690: First newspaper published in colonial America. It was never published again. Authorities considered "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick" to be offensive, and ordered the publisher, Benjamin Harris, to cease publishing.

Sep. 26. 1786: Shay's Rebellion begins, Springfield Armory, MA. Against the authority of the central government newly installed. 1937: Bessie Smith, "Empress of the Blues," dies of injuries from an auto accident outside of a Jim Crow hospital in Mississippi when the ambulance refuses to hurry because she is black.

Sep. 27. 1960: Sylvia Pankhurst, leader of East London Federation which sought to unite British labor and woman's suffrage movement, dies. 1983: Five members of Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp enter Boeing's Cruise missile production plant in Seattle, leaflet workers, and are arrested.

Sep. 28. 1966: Dozens of anti-war demonstrators disrupt address of Vice President Humphrey at Olympic Hotel in Seattle. 1994: Indigenous people from around the globe meet in Bolivia to discuss bio-piracy.

Sep. 29. 1984: Protesters crash the 40th birthday celebration of the World Bank and IMF. 2001: An estimated 20,000 rally in Washington DC, against the prospect of military strikes as part of Pres. Bush's new "War on Terrorism." Smaller rallies and marches are held around the country.

Sep. 30. 1765: Mexican Independence fighter Jose Maria Morelos born, Valladolid. 1885: Knights of Labor win on Wabash Railroad.

Oct. 1. 1918: Beginning of street fighting in Berlin leading to the November revolution--councils of workers, soldiers, intellectuals, and artists take over governing at the end of WWI.

Oct. 2. 1986: Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's veto and passes South African sanctions. This is a culmination of efforts by Trans-Africa's Randall Robinson, Rep. Mickey Leland, and others, begun almost 2 years earlier with Robinson's arrest in front of the South African Embassy in Washington DC.

Oct. 3. 1920: One million English miners strike against the lengthening of work hours.

Oct. 4. 1887: Louisiana sugar workers strike: 37 peaceful strikers murdered. Louisiana Militia, aided by bands of "prominent citizens," shot unarmed black sugar workers striking to gain a dollar-per-day wage, and lynched 2 strike leaders.

Oct. 5. 1903: Birth of Germinal Esgleas, Barcelona. Spanish anarchist militant, Secretary-General of the CNT. Active in exile (in France), he was sentenced to prison by the Vichy government.

Oct. 6. 1917: Birth of Fannie Lou Hamer, near Ruleville, Mississippi. Voting rights crusader and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. 1934: Spain: Declaration of Catalan republic within the federal Spanish republic after uprisings occur all over the peninsula, especially Asturias.

Oct. 7. 1967: Nationwide demonstrations and riots in Japan begin against Vietnam War and government policies. 1989: "Housing Now!" march draws 200,000 in Washington DC.