Mar. 3. 1968: Chicano students stage walkout of Los Angeles high schools, calling for an end to racist policies.

Mar. 4. 1917: Jeanette Rankin of Montana, first U.S. Congresswoman, begins term. Rankin becomes the only Congressperson to vote against U.S. entry into both World War I and World War II. 1985: U.S. Supreme Court upholds right of Oneida nation of New York to sue for lands illegally taken in 1795.

Mar. 5. 1496. English King Henry VII grants to Henry Cabot the right to "subdue, occupy, and possess" any lands that he might find in the New World. 1770: Free black Crispus Attucks becomes first American killed in revolution. 1871: Birth of Rosa Luxemburg, Jewish Polish author, theoretician, and leader in German Socialist and anti-war movements.

Mar. 6. 1969: 9,000 march at University of Washington to protest Vietnam War.

Mar. 7. 1972: Urban Indians form the National American Indians Council, Omaha, Nebraska. 1996: 500 women march on the National Palace in a commemoration of state violence against women, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Mar. 8. 1782: Glikhikan, a Delaware warrior, was murdered and scalped by "white savages" under Col. D. Williamson. 1965: First U.S. combat troops land in Vietnam. 1971: The Union of Nova Scotia Indians, claiming immunity under Canada's Indian Act, announces it will no longer pay provincial taxes on Indian lands.

Mar. 9. 1987: United Nations recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.