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- Among the most famous protests in U.S. history is the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organizers described this event as a “living petition.” The day is perhaps most remembered for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Discover 20 of the most famous protests throughout U.S. history. These famous protests include some of the earliest, largest and longest running. They show a diverse range of causes, and they cross time and place. Many tested the limits of the First Amendment. Some helped expand these freedoms.
- Boston Tea Party
- Women’s Suffrage Parade
- The March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom
- Stonewall Riots
- Occupation of Alcatraz
- The March For Our Lives
- Protests
Dec. 16, 1773 Boston, Massachusetts The Boston Tea Party was the first significant act of rebellion by American colonist against the British. For years, colonists were unfairly taxed by the British government without representation in Parliament, and the Tea Act of 1773, which granted a monopoly and tax exemption to the British East Indian Company,...
March 3, 1913 Washington, D.C. After 60 years of women fighting for suffrage, the first major demonstration for the cause took place during a parade on the eve of President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. The parade, organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association and activist Alice Paul, consisted of more than 5,000 suffragettes, four...
Aug. 28, 1963 Washington, D.C. About 250,000 people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial to voice their outrage against racial inequalities and the violent attacks of civil rights protestors at Birmingham, Alabama. It was at this march that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, which 3,000 members of the media were pres...
June 28 to July 3, 1969 New York In the 60s, raids on local gay bars and harassment to patrons by the New York Police Department were common. But when officers raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on the morning of June 28, 1969, members of the LGBTQ community had enough and resisted. Protests began that same morning and continued for six ...
Nov. 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971 San Francisco Bay, California In 1934, the U.S. government began using Alcatraz Island to house prisoners before closing the island’s prison in 1963. The following year, it was declared a federal surplus property and soon thereafter Native American activists began occupying the island, citing the Fort Laramie Treaty ...
March 24, 2018 Washington, D.C., with other protests led worldwide. On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were killed by a former student who opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle. The tragedy marked a turning point in years of calls for gun-control legislation and led to the March for Our Lives...
July 14 to July 24, 2019 Puerto Rico After years of sluggish progress to recover from Hurricane Maria and many more years of alleged corruption within the Puerto Rican government, a scandal involving the island’s governor and his staff led to national outrage and calls for resignation. On July 13, 2019, hundreds of pages of messages between Puerto ...
- 1688: Germantown Quaker petition against slavery. A group of Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1688 created the "first written protest against slavery in the new world," according to the Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust.
- 1773: The Boston Tea Party. Protesters flooded Griffin's Wharf in Boston on a dreary December evening in 1773 to demonstrate against the Tea Act, which gave the British government an effective monopoly on selling tea in the colonies.
- 1791: The Whiskey Rebellion. Enraged by a new duty on whiskey and distilled spirits implemented in 1791, farmers in Pennsylvania and Virginia used violence and acts of intimidation in attempts to stop the collection of the tax.
- 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention. A group of feminists on July 19, 1848, hosted the first women's rights convention in the United States: the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
- The George Floyd protests. The George Floyd protests began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, after the killing of George Floyd — an African American man who asphyxiated when now-former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin pinned him down with a knee on his neck for more than 8 minutes.
- The March for Science. On Earth Day (April 22) 2017, roughly 100,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., in a non-partisan rally to celebrate science and promote making policy decisions using scientific evidence — particularly on issues like climate change and public health.
- The Women's March on Washington. On Jan. 21, 2017 — the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as 45th president of the United States — more than 470,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., in support of women's rights, and in opposition to misogynistic statements and behavior from Trump.
- The Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation began with the quietest and most orderly single protest in this list — the nailing to the door of a German church a treatise on the abuses of Catholicism by Martin Luther, in 1517.
Jun 1, 2020 · One of the most famous protests in US history was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. The...
Feb 8, 2017 · Solidarity Day March 1981. AP. The Solidarity Day march was a rally of about 260,000 people in DC in 1981. It was in response to President Ronald Reagan's decision to fire 12,000 air traffic...
Mar 12, 2015 · 1. Gandhi’s Salt March. Under British rule, Indians were prohibited from collecting or selling salt—Britain had a monopoly on that staple product, and taxed it heavily. Gandhi assembled his...
