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Women's Suffrage Parade
In 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson’s Inauguration, 8,000 suffragist marchers took to the streets of Washington D.C. in a gigantic parade. Organized by Alice Paul for the National Women’s Suffrage Association, there were multitudes of floats, bands, signs, mounted brigades, and allegorical performances. They marched past the White House with tens of thousands of onlookers (mostly men) watching. Although they had a permit to march, and were completely peaceful...(cont) -
McCarthy Speech
When there is widespread panic and fear among a community, the best way to control those people is to offer them a solution. Both Trump and McCarthy did exactly that. In 1950, Senator McCarthy made his famous Enemies from Within speech in West Virginia, where he claimed he had a list of 205 names of communists who worked in the State Department. McCarthy made the threat of communists looming and large, and completely without evidence to back up what he was saying...(cont) -
Civil Rights Sit Ins
https://www.facebook.com/motherjones/videos/10153777810687144/
Part of the Civil Rights Movement, the Sit Ins were groups of black students that sat at whites-only lunch counters to protest segregation. They would peacefully, quietly, and calmly sit while whites threw food at them, jeered, and even beat them. After police came and arrested the blacks, more would take their place and sit in defiance at the counter...(cont) -
Freedom Riders
A years after the Sit Ins movement began, the Freedom Riders started their own movement for the same cause. Groups of blacks rode segregated buses into the Southern United States, challenging the segregation of the buses that had been made illegal the previous year in the court case Boynton V. Virginia. This was the same case that had outlawed segregation of public places like restaurants and at lunch counters...(cont) -
George Wallace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-kBVggFrs
George Wallace was a particularly racist Governor of Alabama in the 1960’s, during the Civil Right’s Movement. Wallace had segregationist attitudes and was not afraid to speak them publicly. When black students were allowed to enroll in the University of Alabama, Wallace stood in front of the door, blocking their path to stop them from entering...(cont) -
Kent State Shooting
In April of 1970, in the middle of the Vietnam war, President Nixon announced that thousands more troops would be needed for the fight. This resulted in thousands of students across the country to protest the U.S. presence in Vietnam. One particular protest at Kent State, in Ohio, involved setting fire to a ROTC building near campus. 900 National Guardsmen were dispatched to the scene, where 28 open-fired into the crowd of protesters. Four students were killed and nine were injured...(cont) -
Hard Hat Riot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAyRK38_yAI
The Hard Hat Riot took place in 1970 during the Vietnam War, when people were either vehemently against, or strongly for, the war. Moved by their desire for peace and unity, protesters regularly took to the streets, holding signs and chanting about an end to the war. On May 8th, 200 construction workers left their work to stop a group of students protesting Vietnam. Protesters were yelled at, beaten with crowbars and hard hats, and kicked...(cont) -
Ferguson Protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpW14WKI6lA
The Ferguson protests began in August of 2014, after the shooting of an innocent young man named Michael Brown by a white police officer. The police officer was not charged with murder, as the general public had wanted. Black Rights activists and african-americans took to the streets in droves, holding signs, chanting, smashing store windows and looting buildings. Blacks saw the act of not charging the officer with murder as a racial slur...(cont) -
KKK Protests
In February of this year a group of protesters waited in a park where there was to be a KKK rally. The protesters surrounded the Klansmen, shouting and yelling at them, and breaking the windows of their SUV. One Klan member took a flagpole and stabbed a protester through the stomach with it. Another Klansmen stabbed protesters with a knife, and “all hell broke loose”. Many police officers were deployed and the Klansman with the knife was taken into custody...(cont) -
Trump Rallies
Donald Trump rallies are known for being dangerous, loud, and full of protesters. Now, more and more protests are becoming violent, perhaps in response to harassment by supporters, or maybe due to Trump’s increased hate-mongering. Just recently Trump has been saying rather controversial things about a Hispanic Supreme Court judge, as well as his remarks about Hillary Clinton being un-presidential, his plans for the death penalty and cruel and unusual punishment...(cont)
