Sep. 2. 1921: Mine owners bomb striking West Virginia miners by plane. 1965: Mao Zedong launches "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" in China. 1969: Blacks riot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Hartford, Connecticut.

Sep. 3. 1838: Frederick Douglass, famous African-American abolitionist, escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to freedom in the north. 1957: Elizabeth Eckford is blocked from becoming first black student at Little Rock (Ark.) Central High School. 1969: Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, 79, dies of natural causes in Hanoi. 1997: Kurdish Peace Train demonstration broken up by Turkish police in Istanbul.

Sep. 4. 1626: First patent in American history, for device to restrain natives, to W. Claiborne, Jamestown, Virginia. 1966: National Guard confronts white supremacist mobs in Cicero, Illinois, outside Chicago. 1978: Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear weapons and power in Red Square, Moscow, and on White House lawn, Washington D.C. 1982: 10,000 dance on nuclear reactor site, Gorleben, West Germany. 1996: Scattered protests around the country greet the latest gratuitous U.S. bombing of Iraq. About 100 gather at the Federal Building in Seattle; in Washington D.C., eight are arrested for dumping buckets of rubble on the White House lawn.

Sep. 5. 1877: Crazy Horse assassinated at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during an attempt to confine him in a guardhouse. 1917: In 48 coordinated raids across the country, federal agents seize records and arrest hundreds of IWW (Wobbly) activists for the crime of labor organizing and "obstructing" World War I. 1981: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp established outside Greenham Air Base, Britain, as "Women For Life On Earth."

Sep. 6. 1860: Jane Addams, suffragist and peace activist, born, Chicago. 1973: Rebellion at Statesville prison, Indiana. 1988: Seven arrested in protests at uranium processing plant, Fernald, Ohio. The Fernald plant was later revealed to be among the worst polluters in the entire U.S. nuclear industry. Its corporate contractor, Fluor Daniel, was recently awarded the multi-billion dollar contract for Hanford cleanup.

Sep. 7. 1958: First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization. 1968: Feminist protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant. Atlantic City, N.J. 1990: RCMP moves in on First Nations encampment in southern Alberta, ending a month-long native attempt to protect sacred land by diverting the Old Man River around a partially completed dam. 1992: Troops kill nonviolent demonstrators, Ciskei "homeland," South Africa.

Sep. 8. 1941: Workers strike against diversion of milk to military use by the Nazis, Norway. 1965: Strike of Filipino and Mexican farmworkers against grape growers in Delano, California begins successful five-year strike by United Farm Workers. 1974: President Ford pardons former Pres. Richard Nixon. 1978: 3,000 unarmed demonstrators killed by Shah's troops, Tehran, Iran.