1923 | Human Rights, Social Justice
Human Rights, Social Justice
V. I. Lenin establishes the first Soviet forced-labor camp in the Solovetsky Islands northwest of Archangel (see Holmogor concentration camp, 1921). Slave labor in the next 30 years will build nine new Russian cities, 12 railway lines, six heavy industry centers, three large hydroelectric stations, two highways, and three ship canals (see Stalin Ship Canal, 1933).
The House of Commons votes 231 to 27 March 2 to adopt the Matrimonial Causes bill.
The National Woman's Party founded by Alice Paul in 1913 meets at Seneca Falls, N.Y., and endorses an Equal Rights Amendment drafted by Paul, who calls it the Lucretia Mott amendment.
A Columbia, Missouri, mob that includes University of Missouri students lynches a black named James Scott July 28. The state's governor has learned hours earlier that the lynching was going to take place but has not called out the militia to stop it.