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25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol

  • 25th March 2021
  • Tagged as: Alabama, Civil Rights, Johnson, March, Martin Luther King, Montgomery, Protest, Racism, Selma

The marchers arrived in Montgomery on 25 March, where King made his ‘How Long, Not Long’ speech to a crowd of more than 25,000 people.

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27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee

  • 27th February 2021
  • Tagged as: American Indian Movement, Indians, Native Americans, Occupation, Politics, Protest, South Dakota, Wounded Knee

Approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for 71 days.

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1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

  • 1st February 2021
  • Tagged as: Civil Rights, Desegregation, Jim Crow, Protest, Racism, Segregation, Sit-In

The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department store.

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15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

  • 15th December 2020
  • Tagged as: Australia, Gold, mining, Protest, Victoria

Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster Meeting.

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15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

  • 15th November 2020
  • Tagged as: March, Moratorium to end the war in Vietnam, Nixon, Protest, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Washington DC

Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.

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16th August 1819: Protesters killed in the Peterloo Massacre

  • 16th August 2020
  • Tagged as: Britain, Economy, Law, Manchester, Military, Politics, Protest

On the 16th August 1819, the Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter’s Field in Manchester when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by cavalry.

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11th June 1963: Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death to protest again the government of Ngô Đình Diệm

  • 11th June 2020
  • Tagged as: Buddhism, Diem, Persecution, Protest, Religion, USA, Vietnam

Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in Saigon.

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4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students

  • 4th May 2020
  • Tagged as: Cambodia, Kent State, Massacre, National Guard, Nixon, Ohio, Protest, Shooting, Student, University, Vietnam

Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students.

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5th October 1936: The Jarrow March departs for London

  • 5th October 2019
  • Tagged as: Economy, Great Depression, House of Commons, Jarrow March, London, Protest, Society, Unemployment

The closure of Palmer’s Shipyard was a devastating blow to the people of Jarrow, where unemployment had hit 70%.

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24th August 1967: Abbie Hoffman throws money inside the New York Stock Exchange

  • 24th August 2019
  • Tagged as: Abbie Hoffman, Activism, New York, Protest, Stock Market, United States, USA, Wall Street

Political activist Abbie Hoffman and a group of protesters threw dollar bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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