These Iconic Photos From American Protests Over The Past Century Are Striking — Not For How Different They Look, But For How Familiar

Over the past century, millions of Americans person taken to the streets to request alteration — for the close to vote, for civilian rights, for just wages, for disablement access, for cheery liberation, and for a agelong database of causes that shaped the state we unrecorded successful now. Some of those movements are instantly recognizable. Others person been mostly forgotten. But looking astatine the photos of these protests, thing other stands out.

A march from 1970 for termination rights could astir walk for a rally past year. A 1977 sit-in by disablement activists uses the aforesaid tactics and connection advocates trust connected today. A 1968 representation of Black sanitation workers holding signs that work "I AM A MAN" captures a request that inactive hasn't afloat been met. What makes these images truthful striking isn't conscionable their humanities significance. It's however acquainted they feel, and however consistently radical person shown up, again and again, to propulsion for thing better.

Some of what these radical were warring for has been won. Some of it hasn't. And immoderate of what erstwhile seemed settled has had to beryllium fought for each implicit again. But crossed each of it, there's a throughline of mean radical refusing to enactment quiet, insisting connected being seen, and uncovering ways — implicit and implicit — to determination the state forward.

Here are 68 photos from 15 protestation movements crossed the 20th period that amusement conscionable however almighty radical tin beryllium erstwhile they travel together.

On March 3, 1913 — the time earlier Woodrow Wilson's statesmanlike inauguration — astir 5,000 women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue successful Washington, DC, demanding the close to vote. American women had been organizing for suffrage since 1848, but by 1913, the question had stalled, and organizers wanted nationalist attention. They picked the inauguration deliberately. Every newsman successful the state was already successful town. Half a cardinal spectators lined the route.

1. Leading the procession was 26-year-old Inez Milholland, a labour lawyer chosen to thrust astatine the beforehand due to the fact that organizers wanted to antagonistic paper caricatures of suffragists arsenic unfeminine. Three years later, Milholland collapsed mid-speech successful Los Angeles aft saying, "Mr. President, however agelong indispensable women hold for liberty?" She died weeks aboriginal astatine property 30.

2. The banner was a objection of organizational scale. The National American Woman Suffrage Association had spent decades gathering chapters successful each state, and wanted Congress to cognize it represented a nationwide movement.

3. The assemblage was truthful dense that constabulary couldn't support the parade way clear. Spectators shouted slurs, grabbed marchers, and spat connected them. Police mostly did not intervene.

4. The unit became a nationalist scandal, starring to legislature hearings and drafting caller supporters to the cause. Seven years later, the 19th Amendment was ratified — though it would instrumentality decades much earlier Black women successful the South and women of colour could really workout that right.

On August 28, 1963, much than 250,000 radical gathered astatine the Lincoln Memorial successful what was, astatine the time, the largest objection successful American history. The march is champion remembered for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, but the authoritative sanction was the "March connected Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Economic justness was fractional the demand. Organizers, led by Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph, had spent years readying a wide protestation for civilian and economical rights, which they understood arsenic inseparable.

5. The presumption from the apical of the Lincoln Memorial. A 4th of a cardinal Americans had traveled to DC — galore by chartered buses and adjacent connected ft — to request national enactment connected civilian rights.

6. The signs spelled retired the circumstantial demands: "We Demand Decent Housing Now," "We Demand an End to Bias Now," "We Demand an FEPC Law Now" — referring to the Fair Employment Practice Committee, which would person banned radical favoritism successful hiring.

7. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to marchers from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The "I Have a Dream" code was mostly improvised. King acceptable speech his prepared remarks erstwhile Mahalia Jackson called out, "Tell them astir the dream, Martin!"

In aboriginal 1965, civilian rights activists successful Alabama were warring for the close to registry to vote. In Selma, less than 2% of eligible Black residents were registered, blocked by literacy tests, canvass taxes, and intimidation. After a young activistic named Jimmie Lee Jackson was changeable and killed by a authorities trooper astatine a peaceful protest, organizers planned a 54-mile march from Selma to the authorities superior successful Montgomery. Their archetypal attempt, connected March 7, 1965, became known arsenic Bloody Sunday, arsenic authorities troopers attacked marchers with clubs and teardrop state connected the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The images shocked the nation. Two much attempts followed.

8. Marchers transverse the Edmund Pettus Bridge successful Selma, named for a Confederate wide and Ku Klux Klan leader. The archetypal effort ended successful violence, the 2nd was a symbolic turnaround, and the third, nether national protection, made it each the mode to Montgomery.

9. On March 25, 1965, marchers arrived astatine the Alabama State Capitol. From left: Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, and Hosea Williams. By this point, the march had grown to 25,000 people.

10. Sharecroppers, home workers, teachers, and students walked for days, sleeping successful fields and religion halls on the route. Five months aft this photograph was taken, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

In 1965, the farmworkers who picked America's grapes lived successful immoderate of the harshest conditions successful the state — paid beneath the minimum wage (which cultivation workers had been deliberately excluded from), housed successful labour camps without moving water, sprayed with pesticides portion they worked, and denied the close to unionize. On September 8, 1965, Filipino American farmworkers successful Delano, California, walked disconnected the fields led by labour organizer Larry Itliong, demanding not conscionable higher wages but national recognition, safer conditions, and quality dignity. One week later, Mexican American farmworkers joined them. The 2 groups merged into what became the United Farm Workers, 1 of the astir palmy multiracial labour alliances successful American history.

Led by Itliong, Dolores Huerta, and others, the onslaught lasted 5 years. The national called for a nationalist boycott of California grapes, and by 1970, 17 cardinal Americans refused to bargain them — 1 of the astir palmy user boycotts successful US history.

11. In 1966, grape pickers marched 300 miles from Delano to Sacramento — a 25-day pilgrimage timed to get astatine the authorities capitol connected Easter Sunday. They carried some American flags and the UFW's achromatic eagle banner. Filipino workers, led by Larry Itliong, had walked disconnected the fields first. Mexican workers joined a week later.

12. The onslaught lasted 5 years, done arrests, evictions, unit from hired strikebreakers, and national authorities hostility. In 1970, grape growers signed contracts with the UFW, granting farmworkers higher wages, entree to healthcare, and the close to organize.

On October 21, 1967, astir 100,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters marched connected the Pentagon. As demonstrators faced disconnected against National Guard troops with fixed bayonets, an 18-year-old named George Harris walked up to a enactment of soldiers and began placing carnations successful the barrels of their rifles. Photographer Bernie Boston captured the infinitesimal for the Washington Star. The representation was aboriginal nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and became 1 of the defining photographs of the anti-war movement.

13. George Harris had hitchhiked from New York to DC for the protest. He aboriginal moved to San Francisco, took the sanction Hibiscus, and cofounded the queer theatre troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS successful 1982 astatine property 33.

On February 1, 1968, 2 Memphis sanitation workers — Echol Cole and Robert Walker — were crushed to decease successful the backmost of a garbage truck. They had been taking structure from a rainstorm wrong the truck's compactor due to the fact that the metropolis didn't fto Black workers hold retired storms successful achromatic neighborhoods. Eleven days later, 1,300 Memphis sanitation workers went connected strike, demanding a surviving wage, national recognition, and safer moving conditions. Their signs read, simply, "I AM A MAN." Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to enactment the strike. He was assassinated determination connected April 4.

14. National Guard troops with fixed bayonets enactment Beale Street arsenic sanitation workers march past carrying "I AM A MAN" placards. The operation became 1 of the defining slogans of the civilian rights era.

15. The onslaught drew nationalist attraction aft a march connected March 28 turned convulsive erstwhile constabulary clashed with demonstrators, and a Memphis serviceman changeable and killed 16-year-old Larry Payne.

16. Four days aft her husband's assassination, Coretta Scott King led thousands of soundless marchers done Memphis successful enactment of the sanitation workers. Sixteen days later, the metropolis recognized the national and agreed to a wage increase.

Before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. was readying what helium considered the astir extremist task of his life: a multiracial conjugation of mediocre Americans — Black, achromatic Appalachian, Chicano, Native, and Puerto Rican — who would travel to Washington unneurotic and request economical rights. He called it the Poor People's Campaign. After King's death, Ralph Abernathy carried the task forward. In May 1968, thousands of mediocre Americans traveled to DC and built a shantytown connected the National Mall called Resurrection City. They stayed for six weeks.

17. Organizers chose a mule bid arsenic the campaign's cardinal symbol. For galore mediocre Southerners, mules were inactive the superior means of workplace labour successful 1968, and the caravan was meant to face Washington with the world of agrarian poverty. The bid traveled from Marks, Mississippi — 1 of the poorest towns successful America — each the mode to the capital.

18. One of the wagons bore the message, "Don't laugh, folks; Jesus was a mediocre man." The caravan rolled done DC streets successful June 1968, drafting crowds and tv cameras.

19. Resurrection City was a planned shantytown of plywood shelters built betwixt the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. At its peak, it housed astir 3,000 people. Families brought their children; residents ran a daycare, a aesculapian clinic, and a psyche nutrient kitchen.

20. Heavy rainfall turned Resurrection City into mud for overmuch of its existence. Conditions were hard. The encampment flooded repeatedly, supplies ran low, and residents dealt with illness, cold, and harassment from counter-protesters.

21. Ralph Abernathy (center) holds a property league with Chief George Crows Fly High of the Three Affiliated Tribes (left) and Reies Tijerina, a Chicano land-grant activistic from New Mexico (right). The campaign's multiracial enactment was unprecedented for a large nationalist protest.

22. On June 19, 1968 — "Solidarity Day" — astir 50,000 radical gathered astatine the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It was the largest multiracial economic-justice objection successful American past up to that point.

23. Chicano organizers from Laredo, Texas, marching with a banner speechmaking "We Want Jobs" and "Viva La Causa" — the rallying outcry of the United Farm Workers.

On November 20, 1969, 89 Native American activists took boats to Alcatraz Island successful San Francisco Bay and claimed it for Indigenous people. They cited the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which promised unused national onshore backmost to tribes. The national situation connected the land had been abandoned since 1963. The concern lasted 19 months and drew nationalist attraction to pact rights, breached national promises, and Indigenous self-determination. It helped motorboat the Red Power movement.

24. Activists painted "Indians Welcome / Indian Land" connected the dock, inverting the accustomed "Property of US Government" signs. At its peak, the concern drew much than 400 radical to the island, including families, elders, and children.

25. The national authorities tried to extremity the concern by cutting disconnected powerfulness and water, but supporters brought supplies by vessel for months. Here, a Coast Guard patrol intercepts 1 specified vessel successful precocious 1969.

26. Occupiers lived successful the erstwhile situation cells of the abandoned penitentiary. Many were assemblage students who had travel to Alcatraz from San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley, portion of a procreation of young Indigenous activists who had organized done the 1960s.

27. LaNada Means (Shoshone-Bannock), 1 of the occupation's cardinal organizers and a UC Berkeley student, with a exemplary for a projected Native American taste and acquisition halfway connected the island. The halfway was ne'er built — the authorities forcibly ended the concern successful June 1971 — but the connection shaped aboriginal national concern successful Native taste institutions.

28. Leaders Richard Oakes (a Mohawk activistic and 1 of the occupation's main organizers), Earl Livermore (Blackfeet), and Al Miller (Seminole) clasp a property league during the occupation. Oakes was 27 years old. His 13-year-old stepdaughter, Yvonne, died aft falling from a gathering connected the land successful January 1970 — a nonaccomplishment that led Oakes and his household to permission Alcatraz and reshaped the occupation's trajectory.

29. By Thanksgiving 1969, astir 250 Indigenous radical were connected the island. They held a accepted meal, danced, and shared a bid pipe. For galore Native activists, the concern was arsenic overmuch astir reclaiming taste signifier arsenic it was astir reclaiming land.

30. Nearly a decennary aft the concern ended, the h2o operation inactive work "PEACE AND FREEDOM. WELCOME. HOME OF THE FREE INDIAN LAND." The activism Alcatraz launched changed national argumentation toward Indigenous nations successful the decades that followed, contributing to the extremity of the national termination argumentation and the transition of the Indian Self-Determination Act successful 1975.

In the aboriginal hours of June 28, 1969, constabulary raided the Stonewall Inn, a cheery barroom successful Greenwich Village. Unlike erstwhile raids, the patrons — led by trans women of colour including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera — fought back. The uprising lasted respective nights and galvanized a much militant epoch of LGBTQ+ activism. Exactly 1 twelvemonth later, connected June 28, 1970, thousands marched from Greenwich Village to Central Park successful what was called Christopher Street Liberation Day. It was the archetypal Pride. The contented continued the pursuing year, with parallel marches expanding to Los Angeles, Chicago, and beyond.

31. Marchers transportation the "It's Time! National Gay Task Force" banner past the New York Public Library. In 1970, successful astir of the country, being openly cheery could outgo idiosyncratic their job, their home, and their family.

32. At the aboriginal Pride marches, participants were already reclaiming slurs arsenic a governmental enactment — a strategy that would go cardinal to LGBTQ+ activism successful the decades that followed.

33. Members of the Buffalo Radical Lesbians march successful the 1971 Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, carrying a banner with the group's sanction and the chant "3-5-7-9 Lesbians Are Mighty Fine." Regional LGBTQ+ organizations from crossed the state traveled to New York to enactment successful the aboriginal Pride marches.

34. A "Female Liberation" banner astatine the 1971 march. Early Pride was intimately linked to the broader women's liberation and cheery liberation movements, though tensions existed successful some — lesbians were often marginalized wrong mainstream feminism and wrong cheery antheral organizing.

35. A marcher wears a "Gay Revolution" T-shirt featuring a raised fist. The aboriginal Pride question drew explicitly connected the ocular connection of the Black Power question and different liberation struggles of the era.

On August 26, 1970 — the 50th day of the 19th Amendment giving women the close to ballot — the National Organization for Women called connected women crossed the state to spell connected strike. Don't cook. Don't clean. Don't amusement up to work. Instead, march. In New York City, an estimated 50,000 women walked down Fifth Avenue successful what Betty Friedan called the largest objection for women's rights successful American history. Their demands included termination rights, equality successful the workplace, and escaped childcare.

36. Women march down Fifth Avenue nether the banner "Women's Strike for Peace — And Equality." Organizers deliberately linked the onslaught to the anti-war movement.

37. Two young women deterioration signs speechmaking "Free Abortion On Demand — No Forced Sterilization." The request for termination rights was paired with a request to extremity forced sterilization, a signifier disproportionately inflicted connected Black, Indigenous, and Puerto Rican women successful the US passim the 20th century.

38. A subordinate of the Third World Women's Alliance holds a motion reading, "We correspond Black and 3rd satellite women, the astir exploited and oppressed successful the quality race." The critique that mainstream feminism was ignoring women of colour was being made from wrong the question from the start.

39. Demonstrators march successful Los Angeles during the Women's Strike for Equality, 1 of dozens of coordinated marches crossed the state that day. The "Free Child Care Centers" motion reflected 1 of the strike's 3 halfway demands, alongside termination rights and workplace equality.

40. Marchers transportation signs speechmaking "Hands Off Angela Davis" and "Male Chauvinist You Better Start Shakin' — Today's Pig Is Tomorrow's Bacon." Angela Davis, a Black philosopher, communist, and activist, had been placed connected the FBI's Most Wanted database 8 days earlier the march, accused of supplying guns utilized successful a courthouse shootout. She was aboriginal acquitted of each charges.

On February 27, 1973, astir 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied the colony of Wounded Knee connected the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation successful South Dakota — the aforesaid spot wherever the US Army had massacred hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children successful 1890. AIM was protesting some the national attraction of Indigenous nations and the corrupt tribal authorities astatine Pine Ridge. Federal marshals surrounded the village. The siege lasted 71 days. Two Indigenous activists were killed, and 1 national cause was paralyzed. It became the longest equipped standoff connected American ungraded successful the 20th century.

41. Two AIM members basal defender astatine Wounded Knee with the Sacred Heart Church, which the occupiers utilized arsenic a base, disposable successful the background. They had declared the colony the "Independent Oglala Sioux Nation."

42. During the 71-day siege, activists held ceremonies, shared meals, and sang accepted songs. The concern was some equipped absorption and a reassertion of Lakota taste individuality connected ineffable ground.

43. AIM activists hole for a purification ceremonial astatine the tract of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. The concern was some equipped absorption and a reassertion of Lakota spiritual and taste signifier connected ineffable ground.

44. AIM subordinate Oscar Bear Runner stands defender extracurricular a structure connected March 2, 1973. The concern was organized successful portion arsenic equipped self-defense, arsenic activists expected national forces to tempest the village. Several gunfights did interruption retired during the 71-day siege.

45. Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement and 1 of the occupation's cardinal leaders. Banks, an Ojibwe activist, had founded AIM successful Minneapolis successful 1968 to code constabulary brutality against Indigenous radical successful municipality areas. He went connected to pb organizing efforts for decades.

46. Ralph Abernathy — Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest lieutenant and cofounder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — flew to Wounded Knee to amusement Black-Indigenous solidarity. He told AIM leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks, "You person achieved a large triumph successful bringing the plight of the Indians to the attraction of the American people."

47. Angela Davis and AIM organizer Clyde Bellecourt astatine the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport successful September 1973. Davis had flown to Minneapolis specifically to talk astatine a University of Minnesota symposium astir the Wounded Knee occupation, 1 of galore nationalist solidarity efforts that connected the Black liberation, Chicano, and Indigenous movements of the era.

In 1973, Congress passed a instrumentality called the Rehabilitation Act. Buried successful its substance was Section 504 — a azygous condemnation making it amerciable for immoderate federally funded programme to discriminate against disabled people. It was the archetypal large civilian rights extortion for disabled Americans. But 4 years later, 3 statesmanlike administrations had refused to motion the regulations that would really enforce it. On April 5, 1977, astir 150 disabled activists entered the national gathering successful San Francisco and refused to leave. They stayed for 25 days, the longest concern of a national gathering successful US history.

48. Judy Heumann, who contracted polio arsenic a toddler and had been warring for disablement rights since she was denied introduction to kindergarten, led the sit-in. Hours aft this rally, she and 150 activists entered the national gathering and stayed.

49. Demonstrators occupied the lobby of the San Francisco Federal Building during the sit-in. Protesters took implicit aggregate floors and refused to permission until the authorities signed the 504 regulations.

50. Disability activistic Eddie Jauregui signs "I emotion you" to his daughters during a tv interrogation wrong the occupation. The sit-in included Deaf participants, unsighted participants, wheelchair users, and radical with a wide scope of disabilities — a conjugation that had seldom organized unneurotic astatine this standard earlier 1977.

51. Disability activists — including Joan Johnston (second left) and Bruce Oka (right) — held Congressional hearings wrong the occupied building. Many protesters had important aesculapian needs. Supporters smuggled successful medications, ventilators, and sign-language interpreters.

52. Bradley Lomax, center, was a subordinate of the Black Panther Party who had aggregate sclerosis. When the sit-in began, Lomax called his Panther comrades. For 25 consecutive days, the Black Panthers delivered blistery meals to the occupied national building.

53. When a delegation from San Francisco flew to DC to face officials directly, determination was nary accessible proscription waiting for them. Members of the International Association of Machinists national volunteered a Hertz cargo motortruck and lifted activists, wheelchairs and all, inside. On April 28, 1977, the authorities signed the Section 504 regulations.

On October 14, 1979, astir 100,000 LGBTQ Americans and their supporters marched connected Washington, DC — the archetypal nationalist march for cheery and lesbian rights successful US history. It came astatine a infinitesimal of acute loss. Eleven months earlier, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk — the archetypal openly cheery elected authoritative successful California — had been assassinated. In May 1979, erstwhile Milk's slayer received a lenient sentence, San Francisco erupted successful what became known arsenic the White Night riots.

54. Thousands of LGBTQ radical march down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol. Many marchers had traveled from states wherever being openly cheery was inactive criminalized nether sodomy laws — laws that would stay connected the books successful immoderate states until 2003.

55. Protesters gathered astatine the Washington Monument. This march drew much retired LGBTQ Americans to 1 spot than had ever gathered successful US history.

By 1990, much than 100,000 Americans had died of AIDS, and the national government's effect had been marked by years of soundlessness from the Reagan administration, inadequate probe funding, and FDA drug-approval processes that activists understood arsenic a decease sentence. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — ACT UP — was founded successful 1987 to unit change. Their tactics were confrontational and visible. One of the astir effectual was the "die-in," wherever activists would prevarication connected the ground, sometimes successful chalk outlines, sometimes astir coffins, to marque the decease toll visible.

56. ACT UP activists signifier a die-in connected the tract successful beforehand of the Capitol. The maneuver forced some lawmakers and the nationalist to virtually measurement implicit the symbolic bodies of the dead.

57. Activists successful Foley Square, New York, prevarication astir a coffin marked "Ryan White CARE Act." Ryan White, a teen with hemophilia who contracted HIV via humor transfusion and was barred from his Indiana school, had died that April. Four months aft this protest, Congress passed the Ryan White CARE Act — inactive the largest federally funded programme for radical surviving with HIV/AIDS.

58. Signs work "AIDS Care Bill; Signed, Sealed, Stolen" and "Bomb AIDS Not Iraq." The second motion referenced the Gulf War buildup happening that fall, arsenic activists contrasted the billions being spent connected subject involution successful the Middle East with what they saw arsenic chronic underfunding of the AIDS situation astatine home.

On April 25, 1993, determination betwixt 300,000 and 1 cardinal LGBTQ Americans and their allies marched connected Washington — the 3rd large nationalist LGBTQ march, and by acold the largest. It came during an inflection point. Bill Clinton had campaigned connected lifting the prohibition connected cheery work members, and the state was successful the mediate of a statement implicit what would go "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The AIDS situation was inactive sidesplitting tens of thousands of Americans each year. A procreation of LGBT Americans who had travel of property during the AIDS crisis, ACT UP, and the aboriginal civilization wars had arrived successful Washington with much organizing acquisition and governmental urgency than immoderate erstwhile generation.

59. The presumption from atop the Washington Monument, looking eastbound toward the Capitol. Hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ radical filled the National Mall.

60. Marchers capable Freedom Plaza connected Pennsylvania Avenue. The march way ran from the Ellipse adjacent the White House to the Mall, passing immoderate of the astir symbolically charged national buildings successful the country.

61. Members of the Gay Veterans Association march past the White House carrying American flags. Under the policies being debated that year, these veterans could not person served openly.

62. A subordinate of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a resistance show and activistic radical founded successful San Francisco successful 1979, marches past the White House. The Sisters utilized drag-nun iconography to advocator for LGBTQ rights, combat spiritual stigma, and rise important aboriginal backing for HIV/AIDS care.

63. Members of the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) of New York City march down Pennsylvania Avenue. GOAL, founded successful 1982, was 1 of the archetypal organizations for openly LGBTQ instrumentality enforcement officers successful the country.

64. A protester holds a "Lift the Ban" sign, a notation to the military's prohibition connected openly cheery work members. Within months, Clinton would motion "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" into law, a compromise that activists and galore LGBTQ veterans considered a betrayal.

65. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) marches down 15th Street. The radical was founded successful 1972 by Jeanne Manford, a parent whose lad was beaten astatine a cheery rights protest. By 1993, thousands of parents were marching successful enactment of their LGBTQ children.

66. A cheery Vietnam seasoned sits with a banner calling retired the military's refusal to judge openly cheery work members. By 1993, thousands of LGBTQ veterans had travel guardant publicly, galore for the archetypal time, arsenic portion of the run to extremity the ban.

67. Members of the Whitman-Walker Clinic — a DC-based wellness enactment that had been a frontline supplier of HIV/AIDS attraction since the aboriginal 1980s — march past the White House down a banner reading, "Fighting for Gay and Lesbian Health."

These are conscionable 15 movements, and lone the ones that were wide photographed and preserved. What different protests, moments, oregon histories bash you deliberation beryllium here? What bash you deliberation of protests? Tell america successful the comments below.