Aug. 26. 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment in U.S., extending right to vote to women. 1969: The Quinault close reservation beaches to non-Indians; Wash. State responds that ownership is in question. The beaches are still closed, though the resort hotels at Moclips literally go right up to the reservation border. 1971: 6,000 turn out for a National Organization for Women-organized march in New York City for equal rights, with the demand "51 percent of everything."

Aug. 27. 1928: Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact for renunciation of war as national policy signed by major states, Paris, France. It didn't work. 1949: Anti-communist mob breaks up Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, N.Y. 1963: W.E.B. DuBois, black sociologist and founder of the NAACP, dies in Ghana.

Aug. 28. 1892: Birth of Augustin Souchy, anarchist pacifist. 1898: Tsar Nicholas II proclaims international conference to make lasting peace, Russia. It didn't work, either. 1963: Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech at March On Washington for Jobs, Peace and Freedom. 250,000 attend. 1976: 60,000 join Peace People demonstrations, Belfast and Dublin, Ireland.

Aug. 29. 1533: Atahullpa, 13th and last emperor of the Inca empire in present-day Peru, is put to death by Spanish conquistador Pizarro. 1957: U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, the first since 1875. The bill establishes a Civil Rights Commission and a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. 1961: SNCC voter registration drive begins in South.

Aug. 30. 1901: Birth of civil rights leader Roy Wilkins. 1964: Democratic Party convention refuses to seat black protest delegation in place of all-white delegation from state of Mississippi. Outside, 200 protesters rally to oppose Vietnam War. Atlantic City, NJ. 1967: U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first black justice on U.S. Supreme Court.

Aug. 31. 1811: Fort Okanogan established at confluence of Columbia and Okanogan Rivers; Indians meet Astorians with pledges of friendship and gifts of beaver. 1895: First issue of Julius Wyland's Kansas-based socialist newspaper, An Appeal to Reason, is published. 1925: U.S. Marines end eleven-year occupation of Haiti. The dictatorship they leave in place continues to pillage and murder Haitians for another 60 years, rendering destitute what was once the wealthiest country in the Western Hemisphere. 1970: Philadelphia police raid office of local Black Panthers Party. Among those arrested is a young teen, Wesley Cook, later known as Mumia Abu-Jamal. 1980: "Solidarity" workers movement founded at Lenin Shipyards, Gdansk, Poland. 1983: Police use tear gas and water cannons on 10,000 Solidarity demonstrators, Nowa Huta, Poland.

Sep. 1. 1858: Cavalry, infantry, and artillery defeat Kamiakan's Yakama forces near Spokane River, ending three-year Yakama War. 1987: During a nonviolent protest at Concord Naval Weapons Station, a Navy munitions train runs over blockader Brian Willson. Willson loses both legs but has remained an active and articulate leader in the anti-military movement. 1997: Kurdish and British activists blockade an arms trade exhibition outside London. 89 arrested.