THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 30
May 30 in history
What happened on May 30: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1925 and 1971, each linked to the map that shows it.
— May Thirtieth Incident
30 May 1925 — British-officered police fire into a crowd protesting a Japanese mill’s killing of a worker: eleven dead on Nanking Road. The empire-wide strike wave that follows hands the Canton government a mass movement — nationalism is now the strongest force on this map.
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— La Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza
28–30 May 1971 — More than 600 Chicanas meet at the Magnolia Park YWCA in Houston, the first national Chicana conference. Its resolutions demand free abortion and 24-hour childcare, and the meeting divides over whether feminism weakens the Chicano movement.
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