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Nov 12, 2021 · On October 5, 1968, a protest march was planned along Duke Street in Derry. The nationalist activists wanted to draw attention to discriminatory housing policies that resulted in de facto...
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Sep 30, 2018 · Baton-wielding RUC officers tried to break up the march and water cannon was deployed in an attempt to disperse the crowd. It was all captured by a film crew from the Irish national broadcaster...
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McCann and his fellow activists immediately contacted Nicra with a request to hold another march in Derry on Saturday 5 October. At the 11th hour, it was banned by William Craig, the minister for ...
Sep 30, 2018 · The march, organized by the Derry Housing Action Committee and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, took place in Derry on October 5, 1968.
Oct 4, 2018 · October 04, 2018 at 2:00AM BST. FOOTAGE beamed across the world of the RUC baton-charging protesters at a march in Derry was "60 seconds of film that sparked such a change", according to veteran...
Nov 11, 2021 · O n Oct. 5, 1968, chaos broke out in the streets of Derry, Northern Ireland. As a civil rights parade wound through the streets, the police—or Royal Ulster Constabulary...
Oct 9, 2018 · 9 October 2018. Civil rights march was 'vision of a shared Ireland' A civil rights march in Londonderry 50 years ago "galvanised the movement for civil rights in Ireland," the Irish president...
