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Daniel Ellsberg, born on this day in 1931, is an economist and former U.S. military analyst known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, which detailed secret bombing campaigns of Cambodia and Laos and other lies by the Johnson Administration.
Image: Daniel Ellsberg, co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, talks to media outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on April 28th, 1973. Photo credit Wally Fong, AP [nbcnews.com]
Edward Samuel Herman, born on this day in 1925, was an American economist, media scholar, and social critic who has co-authored several works with Noam Chomsky, including Manufacturing Consent (1988).
Gustave Landauer, born on this day in 1870, was an anarchist pacifist who helped found the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. The newly formed Republic was crushed by the right-wing Freikorps, and Landauer was arrested and murdered in prison.
Image: Gustav Landauer's grave on the Neuer Israelitischer Friedhof in Munich. The grave is shared with Kurt Eisner.
On this day in 1917, members of the Socialist Party of America in St. Louis, Missouri for an emergency meeting regarding the U.S.'s entry to WWI. Their chosen measures of resistance would soon be declared illegal by the Espionage Act.
William Monroe Trotter, born on this day in 1872, was a newspaper editor and civil rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts who co-founded the Niagara Movement with WEB Du Bois.