What are some famous protests in history?
aoiaoipanduh asked:
I need to do a simple project on “Civil Disobedience” asking:
I need to do a simple project on “Civil Disobedience” asking:
What protest?
When?
And the timeline of events that occured?
I don’t need ALL the answers, I can do it 
I just need some suggestions on some famous protests from past OR recent history
Help?
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1969 Democratic convention in Chicago.
Abby Hoffman tried to make the pentagon rise rosaline115
What Protest…the food we just ate ——-when 16 hundred——–the timeline the wait to get into the head———the events a lot of dirty underwear and a very nasty smelling head….terrible food tasted like burnt chipmunk crap awful US Marine
Lots of examples can be found here:
But Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Gandhi, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Thích Quảng Đức (burnt himself to death as a protest against persecution of Buddhists). Nick
1. Although it can be argued that it was not truly nonviolent, The Boston Tea Party is iconic. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
2. Gandhi’s nonviolent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India which began with the Salt March on March 12, 1930
3. The Dutch protest was the only one against the Nazi Holocaust during World War 2. On February 22-23, 1941 — nearly 400 Jews were rounded up, tortured publicly in the central square (surrounded by synagogues), and then sent to concentration camps .The public climate was extremely grim, especially in Amsterdam. On February 25-26, a general strike erupted in and around Amsterdam. To this day, the Dutch people are proud of this.
4. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rose Parks refused to obey bus driver James order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Although her action was not the first of its kind, Parks’ action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the first major actions in the civil rights movement. charles