Sep. 14. 1923: Murder of Ito Noe, Japanese anarchist and feminist. 1963: Due to pressure from folksingers boycotting television's "Hootenanny" program, ABC invites Pete Seeger to appear on the show--only if he'll sign an oath of loyalty to the US. He refuses, and ABC extends its blacklist/ban on him.

Sep. 15. 1923: Ku Klux Klan activity in Oklahoma reaches such a high pitch that the Governor is forced to declare a "state of rebellion and insurrection." 1963: Six children attending Sunday School are killed in a Ku Klux Klan bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a turning point in generating broad American sympathy for the civil rights movement.

Sep. 16. 1910: Mexican revolution ends US-supported dictatorship of Portolio Diaz. 1923: Japanese anarchist Osugi Sakae murdered by police.

Sep. 17. 1896: 700,000 Europeans face down soldiers to strike for $200/month minimum wage. 1983: 3,000 demonstrate against nuclear power, Hamm-Uentrop, West Germany.

Sep. 18. 1838: Under forced removal order of Indiana Governor J. Tipton, Potawatomi are delivered to the ironically named "Immigrant Agency." 1958: Termination without tribal consent was ended "in spirit" (but not in practice) by US Secretary of Interior.

Sep. 19. 1952: Due to his political beliefs, US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England. 1974: US intelligence sources reveal that striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabilizing the Allende government during a bloody 1973 coup that led to 16 years of brutal military dictatorship, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA.

Sep. 20. 1932: Rabindranath Tagore urges resistance to practice of "untouchability," while in Yaravda, Gandhi begins six-day "Epic Fast" in jail against separate electorate for untouchables. British India. 1992: Kurdish writer Musa Anter is assassinated by a Turkish death squad.

Sep. 21. 1909: Birth of Kwame Nkrumah, Nkroful, Ghana. A leader in African colonial liberation, the first prime minister of Ghana but he was forced into exile following a coup.

Sep. 22. 1935: 400,000 US coal miners strike. 1981: West German cops oust squatters. Thousands in several cities fight back.

Sep. 23. 1838: Birth of Victoria Woodhull, feminist and reformer. Proponent of Free Love, first woman to run for US presidency (with Frederick Douglass). Member of the First International until expelled by Karl Marx. Homer, Ohio. 1978: Italian prisoners tear down walls to protest maximum security prisons.

Sep. 24. 1824: General Council of the Cherokee Nation passes a law making it unlawful for white men living on the Nation to have more than one wife, or to make use of her property without her consent.

Sep. 25. 1639: First printing press in America. 1925: International convention against forced labor and slavery signed, Geneva, Switzerland.

Sep. 26. 1786: Shay's Rebellion begins, Springfield Armory, Massachusetts. Against the authority of the central government newly installed.

Sep. 27. 1944: The first large-scale plutonium producing reactor begins operation on land seized from the Yakama Indian Nation, Hanford, Washington. 1983: Five members of Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp enter Boeing's Cruise missile production plant in Seattle, leaflet workers, and are arrested.