Riots and Protests

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Votes for Women, Long Branch, New Jersey, 1915. Putting up posters for a Speech by Doctor Anna Howard Shaw at the Long Branch Casino on Thursday, August 26th.

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Guy Borremans, Something never Changes … November 27th,1965 the March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam, 1965

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Young church folk from Sunnyvale protest against John Lennon’s remark that the Beatles are “more popular than Jesus” outside Candlestick Park in San Francisco where the Beatles are holding a concert, August 29, 1966 -

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Women picket in 1971

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New York, August 1913. "Suffragettes on way to Boston." Our second look at the "suffrage caravan" campaign for women's voting rights. Which seems to have drawn quite a crowd. 5x7 glass negative, G.G. Bain Collection.

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SUFFRAGETTE BRITAIN 1900s

The suffrage movement was mainly women from middle class backgrounds. These women were frustrated by their social and economic situation and sought for an outlet through which to initiate change. Their struggles for change within society, along with the work of such advocates for women’s rights as John Stuart Mill, were enough to spearhead a movement that would encompass mass groups of women fighting for suffrage. Mill had first brought the idea of women’s suffrage up in the platform he presented to British electors in 1865. He would later be joined by numerous men and women fighting for the same cause.

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Ernest C.Withers Memphis, 1961

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On February 3, 1964, the Rev. Milton Galamison led the largest student boycott in the history of the New York City public school system, with 464,361 students staying home to fight for the end of school segregation.

(via Untapped Cities)

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A women's suffrage activist protesting after "The Night of Terror." [1917]

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Selma March 1965

The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and led to the passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery as showing the desire of black American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression.

On February 26, an activist and deacon died after being mortally shot several days earlier by a state trooper during a peaceful march. To defuse and refocus the anger about this event, SCLC Director of Direct Action James Bevel, called for a march of dramatic length, from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. 

The first march was nicknamed "Bloody Sunday" after 600 marchers were attacked by state troopers and county posse. This violence led to a national outcry and some acts of civil disobedience, targeting both the Alabama state and federal governments. The protesters demanded protection for the Selma marchers and a new federal voting rights law to enable African Americans to register and vote without harassment.

(via Wikipedia, Smithsonian)

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"Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916." One of the banners used in a memorial service for Inez Milholland, the lawyer who became a martyr to the suffrage movement following her death from anemia while campaigning for the 19th Amendment. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. 

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Harlem and Bed Stuy Riots of 1964

In July 1964, an NYPD officer, Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan shot and killed 15-year-old African American, James Powell, in front of his friends and about a dozen other witnesses. The incident set off six consecutive nights of rioting that affected the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The riots left one dead, 118 injured, and more than 450 arrested. The Harlem race riot of 1964 is credited as the precipitating event for riots in July and August in various cities in the US.

Above: Demonstrators carrying photographs of Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan march on 125th Street near Seventh Ave. during the Harlem Riots of 1964.

Above: New York police detectives examine the charred remains of a police cruiser, the target of a well-aimed Molotov. 

(via SKJordon, wikipedia, Detroits Great Rebellion)

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On 7 January 2015, two masked gunmen forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. They killed 12 people, including the editor Stéphane "Charb" Charbonnier, 7 other Charlie Hebdo employees, and 2 National Police officers, and wounded 11 others. Charlie Hebdo had attracted attention for its controversial depictions of Muhammad (the Muslim prophet).

On 11 January 2015, up to 2 million people, including more than 40 world leaders, met in Paris for a rally of national unity to honor the 17 victims. In all, 3.7 million people joined demonstrations nationwide, in what officials called the largest public rally in France since World War II. The phrase Je suis Charlie (French for "I am Charlie") came to be a common worldwide sign of solidarity against the attacks.

(via Wikipedia, BBC News)

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Students protesting with peace signs. Raleigh, NC, circa 1971.

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February 1913. "Woman suffrage -- hikers arriving in Washington from New York."

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Women's Liberation Movement "Eve Was Framed"

Trying to set the record straight, a young woman goes all the way back into Biblical history for a case in point, during a women's liberation demonstration in New York, New York. August 26, 1970 

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Chicago Race Riot of 1919

The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3. During the riot, thirty-eight people died and over five hundred were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer, so named because of the violence and fatalities across the nation. The combination of prolonged arson, looting, and murder was the worst race rioting in the history of Illinois.

Thousands of African Americans from the South had settled along Chicago's South Side during the Great Migration. Because the Irish had settled here first, they fiercely protected their neighborhood, political power and jobs which resulted in racial tensions throughout the neighborhood.

On July 27, 1919 the tensions exploded and violence lasted 5 days. At a segregated beach, a white man was throwing rocks that resulted in Eugene William's death. A white police officer refused to arrest the white man responsible instead arresting a black man. Objections were met by violence.

African-American men gather in front of Walgreen Drugs at 35th and State Streets during the 1919 race riots in Chicago. Police officers stand in front of the crowd.

The state militia was called in to quell the violence on the south side of Chicago during the 1919 race riots.

Police remove the body of a black man killed during the 1919 race riots. The five days of violence were sparked when a black teenager crossed an invisible boundary between the waters of the 29th Street beach, known to be reserved for whites, and the 25th Street beach, known to be reserved for blacks.

Troops gather at 47th Street and Wentworth Avenue during the Chicago race riots in 1919. 

Black residents of the south side move their belongings with a hand-pulled truck to a safety zone under police protection during the Chicago race riots of 1919.

Many houses in the predominantly white stockyards district were set ablaze during the 1919 race riots. The five days of violence were sparked when a black teenager crossed an invisible boundary between the waters of the 29th Street beach, known to be reserved for whites, and the 25th Street beach, known to be reserved for blacks.

(Photos via the Chicago Tribune. Learn more at Wikipedia)