Today In History
‘Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina and freed nearly 800 slaves on this date June 2 1863. Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to command an armed military raid.’
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman
(photo: Harriet Tubman)
- CARTER Magazine
(via anundevelopedstory)
A federal appeals court in Boston found on Thursday that a U.S. law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to lawfully married same-sex couples in a ruling that promises to push the issue of gay marriage to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The ruling on the 1996 law, the Defense of Marriage Act, marked a victory for gay rights groups and U.S. President Barack Obama, whose administration announced last year it considered the law unconstitutional and would no longer defend it.
READ MORE: Court says marriage law discriminates against gay couples
reblogging this because it’s so wonderful.
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A boy pushed a wheel along the Naderkhan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
[Credit : Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uuauEW4w1r44q44o1_500.jpg)
A boy pushed a wheel along the Naderkhan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
[Credit : Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press]
