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s in the United States.

Presidents

* Protests against George W. Bush (2001-2009) ** January 20, 2005, counter-inaugural protest *

Protests against Barack Obama Protests against Barack Obama occurred throughout the United States during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and during Obama's presidency. Many incidents of racism occurred across the United States in the wake of Barack Obama's electio ...

(2009-2016) **

Tea Party protests The Tea Party protests were a series of protests throughout the United States that began in early 2009. The protests were part of the larger political Tea Party movement. Most Tea Party activities have since been focused on opposing efforts o ...

(2009-2010) *

Protests against Donald Trump Protests against Donald Trump have occurred in the United States and internationally since Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, his entry into the 2016 presidential campaign. Protests have expressed opposition to Trump's campaign rhetoric, ...

(2017-2020) ** January 20, 2017, counter-inagural protests ** March for Truth (2017) ** Tax March (2017) ** Impeachment March (2017) ** Not My Presidents Day (2019) ** 2019 Presidents Day protest * Protests against Joe Biden (2020-2024) ** 2020 election protests ** 2024 election protests * Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump (2025–present) ** Stand Up for Science 2025 **

50501 protests Across the United States during 2025, the political action group 50501 (originally an abbreviation of "50 protests, 50 states, one day") has organized a series of demonstrations in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump. Background 50501 ...

(2025-) ** Economic Blackout (2025-) **

Hands Off protests The Hands Off protests were a series of demonstrations launched across the United States on April 5, 2025, in what was the largest one-day, nationwide display of public resistance against Second presidency of Donald Trump, the second administr ...

(2025-) ** No Kings protest (2025)

Party conventions

1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The prote ...

** Fort Hood 43 * 2000 Democratic National Convention protest activity * 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity *

2023 Democratic National Committee protests The 2023 Democratic National Committee protests were a pro-Palestine protest turned violent. The protest organizers, the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement as well as other Pro-Palestinian protesters arrived outside the DNC buildi ...

* 2024 Democratic National Convention protests

Issues

Abortion

* March for Life (1974-Present) *

March for Women's Lives The March for Women's Lives was a protest demonstration held on April 25, 2004 at the National Mall in Washington, D. C. There was approximately 1.3 million participants. The demonstration was led by seven groups; National Organization for Wom ...

(2004) * Walk for Life West Coast (2005-present) * United States abortion protests (2022–present)

Environment

Earth Day Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday.org (formerly Earth Day Network) includin ...

(1970-Present) * University of California, Berkeley oak grove controversy (2006-2008) * Forward on Climate (2013) * March Against Monsanto (2013) *

People's Climate March (2014) The People's Climate March (PCM) was a large-scale activist event orchestrated by the People's Climate Movement to advocate global action against climate change, which took place on Sunday, September 21, 2014, in New York City, along with a ser ...

* Seattle Arctic drilling protests (2015) *

Dakota Access Pipeline protests The Dakota Access Pipeline Protests or the Standing Rock Protests, also known by the hashtag #NODAPL, NoDAPL, were a series of grassroots Native Americans in the United States, Native American protests against the construction of the Dakota Ac ...

(2016-2017) * Stop Line 3 (2016-Present) *

March for Science The March for Science (formerly known as the Scientists' March on Washington) was an international series of rallies and marches held on Earth Day. The inaugural march was held on April 22, 2017, in Washington, D.C., and more than 600 other cit ...

(2017) ** March for Science Portland (2017) ** March for Science Seattle (2017) *

People's Climate March (2017) The People's Climate March was a protest which took place on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, and at locations throughout the United States on April 29, 2017. The organizers were the People's Climate Movement. They announced the demonstration ...

* Bayou Bridge Pipeline protests (2017-2019) *

Fridays for Future Fridays for Future (FFF), also known as the School Strike for Climate ( ), is an international movement of school students who skip Friday classes to participate in demonstrations to demand climate change mitigation, action from political le ...

(2019-Present) **

September 2019 climate strikes The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strike (action), strikes and protests to demand Action on climate change, action be taken to address global warming, climate change, wh ...

(2019) * Thacker Pass lithium mine protests (2021-2023)

Education

* Free Speech Movement (1964-1965) **

1960s Berkeley protests The 1960s Berkeley protests were a series of events at the University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley, California. Many of these protests were a small part of the larger Free Speech Movement, which had national implications and constituted ...

(1960) *** Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968 *

2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States The 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States began on February 22, 2018, after local activists compelled the West Virginia state leadership of the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National E ...

Electoral

* Draft Eisenhower movement (1948) * Dump Johnson movement (1968) *

Democrats for Nixon Democrats for Nixon was a campaign to promote Democratic support for the then-incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. The campaign was led by the former Democratic governor of Texas, John Connally. Connal ...

(1972) * Haley Voters for Harris (2024) * Calls for Joe Biden to drop re-election bid (2024) * Dump Trump movement (2015-Ongoing) * Democracy Spring (2016-2019) * 2020–21 United States election protests **

January 6 United States Capitol attack On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of Donald Trump, President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup,Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * * two months afte ...

(2021) * 2025 People's March * Inez Milholland 1913 two

Feminism

Woman Suffrage Procession The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first Women's suffrage, suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. The procession was organized by the suffra ...

(1913) *

Women's liberation movement The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued till the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which resulted in g ...

(1960s-1980s) **

Miss America protest The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights advocates. The feminist protest was organized by New York Radical Women and included put ...

(1968) ** Women's Strike for Equality (1970) ** March for the Equal Rights Amendment (1978) ** Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice (1983) *

2017 Women's March The Women's March was an American protest on January 21, 2017, the day after the first inauguration of Donald Trump as the president of the United States. It was prompted by Trump's policy positions and rhetoric, which were and are seen as mi ...

** Women's March on Portland (2017) ** Women's March on Seattle (2017) * Day Without a Woman (2017) *

2018 Women's March The 2018 Women's March was a global protest that occurred on January 20, 2018, on the anniversary of the 2017 Women's March. About In 2018, women's groups across the United States coordinated mass rallies, attracting hundreds of thousands of ...

* 2019 Women's March * 2020 Women's March *

2021 Women's March A women's march was held on October 2, 2021, in protest of a recent abortion law in the U.S. state of Texas, the Texas Heartbeat Act. The demonstration was announced on September 2. More than 90 organizations participated. Although organizers o ...

* 2022 Women's March * 2025 People's March

Globalization

1999 Seattle WTO protests The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, where members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the ...

(1999) *

Washington A16, 2000 Washington A16, 2000 was a series of protests in Washington, D.C. against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that occurred in April 2000. The annual IMF and World Bank meetings were the scene for follow-on protests of the World Tr ...

(2000) *

October Rebellion October Rebellion was the collective name for the series of protest events surrounding the fall 2007 meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on October 19 – 20, 2007, in Washington, D.C., United States. The events were organi ...

(2007)

Guns

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Million Mom March The Million Mom March was a rally held on Mother's Day, May 14, 2000 in the Washington, D.C. National Mall by the Million Mom March organization to call for stricter gun control. The march reportedly drew an estimated attendance of 500,000 to 75 ...

(2000, 2001) * 2016 United States House of Representatives sit-in *

2018 United States gun violence protests In 2018, protests against gun violence in the United States increased after a series of mass shootings, most notably at the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 that year. An organized protes ...

March for Our Lives March for Our Lives (MFOL) is a student-led organization which leads demonstrations in support of gun control legislation. The first demonstration took place in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018, with over 880 sibling events throughout ...

(2018, 2022) * 2020 VCDL Lobby Day

Immigration

2006 United States immigration reform protests In 2006–2007, millions of people participated in protests over a proposed change to U.S. immigration policy. These large scale mobilizations are widely seen as a historic turning point in Latino politics, especially Latino immigrant civic par ...

(2006) * March 2006 LAUSD student walkouts (2006) * Great American Boycott (2006) * 2007 MacArthur Park rallies (2007) * Legalize LA (2008) * March for America (2010) * 2017 May Day protests (2017) * Day Without Immigrants 2017 (2017) *

Protests against Executive Order 13769 In late January and early February 2017, during protests against Executive Order 13769, commonly referred to as the “Muslim ban,” thousands of people gathered at various airports in the United States and around the world to protest the atte ...

(2017) * Protests against the Trump administration family separation policy (2018) * Women Disobey (2018) *

Families Belong Together Families Belong Together refers both to an advocacy campaign devoted to reuniting immigrant families that were separated at the US-Mexico border by a Trump administration policy introduced in spring 2018, and also specifically to a series of pro ...

(2018) * Day Without Immigrants (2025) * 50501 (2025-Ongoing) *

2025 United States protests against mass deportation Several protests and riots broke out against President of the United States, United States President Donald Trump's Mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the second presidency of Donald Trump, mass deportation of immigrants following the s ...

June 2025 Los Angeles protests On June6, 2025, protests erupted in Los Angeles after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided several city locations to arrest individuals allegedly involved in illegal immigration to ...

(2025-present)

Labor

Coxey's Army Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington, D.C., in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United S ...

(1894) *

Fry's Army Fry's Army was the informal name given to a short-lived radical protest movement organized in Los Angeles, California in 1894 and headed by trade union and socialist political activist Lewis C. Fry. Fry's Army was one of about 40 "Industrial Arm ...

(1894) * Minneapolis general strike of 1934 (1934) *

Delano grape strike The Delano grape strike was a labor strike organized by the United Farm Workers, Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape growers in Delano, Californ ...

(1965-1970) * Solidarity Day march (1981, 1991) *

San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 The San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 was a labor dispute called by the Newspaper Guild in November 1994. Employees of San Francisco's two major daily newspapers, the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and '' The San Francisco Examiner'' walked of ...

(1994) *

2010–2011 University of Puerto Rico strikes The 2010–2011 University of Puerto Rico strikes (UPR) refer to the student strikes which took place between May 2010 and June 2010 in ten of the university system's eleven constituent institutions, as well as the protests that occurred from Octo ...

2011 United States public employee protests In February 2011, a series of public employee protests began in the United States against proposed legislation which would weaken the power of trade union, labor unions. By March, eighteen states had proposed legislation which would remove some c ...

2011 Wisconsin protests The 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February and involving as many as 100,000 protesters opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the ''"Wisconsin Budge ...

* 2012 May Day protests * 2013 May Day protests * 2014 May Day protests * 2015 May Day protests * 2017 May Day protests *

2025 May Day protests The 2025 May Day protests were held internationally on May 1, 2025. Demonstrations were held in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. There were also protests in Manila and Taipei. In the United States, protests were organized a ...

* 2021–2022 Columbia University strike *

2023 United Auto Workers strike The 2023 United Auto Workers strike was a labor strike involving automobile workers in the labor union United Auto Workers (UAW) and the three unionized automakers in the United States—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Stellantis. These ...

2023 SAG-AFTRA strike From July 14 to November 9, 2023, the American actors' union SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) went on strike over a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Pro ...

2023 Writers Guild of America strike From May 2 to September 27, 2023, the Writers Guild of America (WGA)—representing 11,500 screenwriters—went on Strike action, strike over a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). Lasting 148 days, ...

LGBTQ+ rights

* The Sip-In (1966) *

National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 1979. The first such march on Washington, it drew between 75,000 and 125,000Ghaziani, Amin. 2008. ...

(1979) * Dyke March (1981-Present) *

Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large Demonstration (people), political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on October 11, 1987. Around 750,000 people participated. Its success, size, scope, and hist ...

(1987) *

March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation The March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 1993. Organizers estimated that 1,000,000 attended the March. The D.C. Police Department p ...

(1993) * Hamilton Square Baptist Church protests (1993) * Millennium March on Washington (2000) * National Equality March (2009) * Legalize Gay (2009) * National Pride March (2017)

Poverty

Poor People's Campaign The Poor People's Campaign, or Poor People's March on Washington, was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. It was organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SC ...

(1968) * Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival (2018) *

Really Really Free Market The Really Really Free Market (RRFM) movement is a horizontally organized collective of individuals who form a temporary Market (economics), market based on an alternative gift economy. RRFM events are often hosted by people unaffiliated with any ...

(2003-Ongoing)

Race

* Civil rights movement (1865–1896) * Civil rights movement (1896–1954) **

Anti-lynching movement The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of Lynching in the United States, lynching. Lynching was used as a tool to repress African Americans. The anti-lynching move ...

(1890s-1930s) ***

Silent Parade The Negro Silent Protest Parade, commonly known as the Silent Parade, was a political protest in New York City on July 28, 1917. The primary objective of the march was to draw national attention to the widespread racial violence and entrenched ...

(1917) **

New Negro movement The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African Americans, African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s a ...

(1918-1930s) *

Chicano Movement The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento (Spanish for "the Movement"), was a civil rights movements, social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano, Chicano identity and worldview that combated ...

(1940s-1970s) ** East L.A. walkouts (1968) **

Chicano Moratorium The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vi ...

** Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal protests (2020) * Civil rights movement (1954-1968) ** Sit-in protests (1939-1964) ***

Alexandria Library sit-in The Alexandria Library sit-in was one of the first staged sit-in actions in the United States, pioneering the use of nonviolent direct action to demand equal rights for African Americans. On August 21, 1939, five Black men sat down inside the Ale ...

(1939) *** Royal Ice Cream sit-in (1957) *** Dockum Drug Store sit-in (1958) *** Katz Drug Store sit-in (1958) *** Biloxi wade-ins (1959-1963) ***

Greensboro sit-ins The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the F. W. Woolwort ...

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Sit-in movement The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of Sit-in, sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute (A&T). Even though ...

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Nashville sit-ins The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a protest to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-in campaign, coordinated by the Nashville S ...

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Atlanta sit-ins The Atlanta sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Occurring during the sit-in movement of the larger civil rights movement, the sit-ins were organized by the Committee on Appeal for Human Righ ...

(1960-1961) ***** Tougaloo Nine (1961) ***** Savannah Protest Movement (1960-1963) ** Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957) **

Albany Movement The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commi ...

(1961-1962) **

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (commonly known as the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington) was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic righ ...

(1963) **

Selma to Montgomery marches The Selma to Montgomery marches were three Demonstration (protest), protest marches, held in 1965, along the highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery. The marches were organized by Nonviolence, nonvi ...

(1965) **

March Against Fear The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 5, 1966, intending to make a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi vi ...

(1966) **

Memphis sanitation strike The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968, in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Death of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, Echol Cole and Robert Walker. The deaths served as a breaking point for more than 1,300 African ...

(1968) ** Ghetto riots (1964–1969) *** Harlem riot of 1964 (1964) ***

Long, hot summer of 1967 The long, hot summer of 1967 refers to a period of widespread Ghetto riots (1964–1969), racial unrest across major American cities during the summer of 1967, where over 150 riots erupted, primarily fueled by deep-seated frustrations regardin ...

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1967 Detroit riot The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". Composed mainly of confrontations between African American res ...

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1967 Newark riots The 1967 Newark riots were an episode of violent, armed conflict in the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Taking place over a four-day period (between July 12 and July 17, 1967), the Newark riots resulted in at least 26 deaths and hundreds more s ...

(1967) ** Black Action Movement (1970, 1975, 1987) * Silent Vigil at Duke University (1968) * Black power movement (1966-1980s) **

(1966) ** 1987 Forsyth County protests (1987) **

1992 Los Angeles riots The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Los Angeles, South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after ...

(1992) **

Million Man March The Million Man March was a large gathering of African-American men in Washington, D.C., on Monday, October 16, 1995. Called by Louis Farrakhan, it was held on and around the National Mall. The National African American Leadership Summit, a ...

(1995) ** Million Woman March (1997) *

Red Power movement The Red Power movement was a social movement which was led by Native American youth who demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States. Organizations that were part of the Red Power Movement include the American Indian ...

(1960s-1970s) **

Trail of Broken Treaties The Trail of Broken Treaties (also known as the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan and the Pan American Native Quest for Justice) was a 1972 cross-country caravan of American Indian and First Nations organizations that started on the West Coast ...

(1972) * American Indian Movement (1968-Ongoing) **

(1972) **

(2016-2017) ** Indigenous Peoples March (2019) ** Christopher Columbus Statue toppling (2020) *

Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a Decentralization, decentralized political and social movement that aims to highlight racism, discrimination and Racial inequality in the United States, racial inequality experienced by black people, and to pro ...

(2013-Ongoing) **

Ferguson unrest The Ferguson unrest (sometimes called the Ferguson uprising, Ferguson protests, or the Ferguson riots) was a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson, Missouri on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal Killing of Michael Brown, ...

(2014-2015) **

2015 Baltimore protests On April 12, 2015, Baltimore Police Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American resident of Baltimore, Maryland. Gray's neck and spine were injured while he was in a police vehicle and he went into a coma. On Ap ...

(2015) ** Jamar Clark protests (2015) ** Keith Lamont Scott protests (2016) **

U.S. national anthem kneeling protests Beginning in August 2016, some American athletes, most of whom are African Americans, have protested against systemic racism in the United States by kneeling on one knee while the U.S. national anthem is played. Beginning in 2017, many play ...

(2016-Ongoing) ** Red House eviction defense (2020) ** Stop Cop City (2020-2024) **Protests during

United States racial unrest (2020–2023) A wave of Civil disorder, civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis Police Department, Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to Protest, protests and Riot, r ...

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Breonna Taylor protests The Breonna Taylor protests were a series of Police brutality in the United States, police brutality protests surrounding the killing of Breonna Taylor. Breonna Taylor, Taylor was a 26-year-old African-American woman who was fatally shot by plai ...

(2020-2022) *** Blackout Tuesday (2020) ***

George Floyd protests The George Floyd protests were a series of protests, riots, and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. The protests and civil unrest began in Minneapolis as Reactions to the mu ...

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Capitol Hill Occupied Protest The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), also known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, originally Free Capitol Hill, later the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), was an Occupation (protest), occupation protest and self-declared Autonomo ...

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George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul Local protests over the Murder of George Floyd, murder of George Floyd, sometimes called the Minneapolis riots or the Minneapolis uprising, began on May 26, 2020, and within a few days had inspired a George Floyd protests, global protest moveme ...

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Protests in Minneapolis regarding the trial of Derek Chauvin In 2020 and 2021, several protests were held in the U.S. City, U.S. city of Minneapolis that coincided with judicial proceedings and the criminal Trial of Derek Chauvin, trial of Derek Chauvin. As an officer with the Minneapolis Police Departmen ...

(2021) ***** 2021 Uptown Minneapolis unrest (2021) ***** George Floyd Square occupied protest (2020-Ongoing) *** Kenosha protests (2020) **** 2020 American athlete strikes (2020) *** Strike for Black Lives (coalition protest) (2020) *** Strike for Black Lives (academic protest) (2020) *** Daunte Wright protests (2021-2022) *** Amir Locke protests (2022) *** Tyre Nichols protests (2023) * 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else (2015) * Stop Asian Hate (2021-2022)

Religion

* 1902 kosher meat boycott * 1933 Madison Square Garden protest * Rabbis' march (1943) * Washington for Jesus (1980) * Godless Americans March on Washington (2002)

Response to Coronavirus

* COVID-19 protests in the United States (2020-2021)

Taxes

(2009-2010) * Taxpayer March on Washington (2009) * Tax March (2017)

War

* * List of protests against the Vietnam War (1945-1973) ** 1965 March against the Vietnam War (1965) ** 1967 March on the Pentagon (1967) ** 1968 Columbia University protests (1968) ** Milwaukee Fourteen **

Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a massive demonstration and teach-in across the United States against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It took place on October 15, 1969, followed a month later, on November 15, 196 ...

(1969) ** Nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970 (1970) ** 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War (1971) * Veterans Fast for Life (1986) * Protests against the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021) ** March 20, 2010 protest (2010) *

Protests against the Iraq War Beginning in late 2002 and continuing after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, large-scale protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world. After the biggest series of demonst ...

(2003-2011) **

15 February 2003 anti-war protests On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 a ...

(2003) ** 2003 Port of Oakland dock protest (2003) ** September 24, 2005, anti-war protest (2005) ** January 27, 2007, anti-war protest (2007) ** March 17, 2007, anti-war protest (2007) ** September 15, 2007, anti-war protest (2007) ** March 19, 2008, anti-war protest (2008) * 2015 Armenian March for Justice (2015) * Protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis *

Gaza war protests in the United States Protests, including rallies, demonstrations, campaigns, and vigils, relating to the Gaza war have occurred nationwide across the United States since the conflict's start on October 7, 2023, occurring as part of a broader phenomenon of the Gaza ...

(2023-Ongoing) ** National March on Washington: Free Palestine (2023) ** March for Israel (2023) ** March on Washington for Gaza (2024) **

Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act, which was live-str ...

(2024) ** 2024 pro-Palestinian Tax Day protests (2024) ** July 2024 protests against Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, D.C. (2024) ** Gaza war protest vote movements (2024) **

List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024 This is a list of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024 since protests escalated on April 17, beginning with the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation, Columbia University campus occup ...

*** 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations *** 2024 Ohio State University pro-Palestinian campus protests *** 2024 University of California, Davis pro-Palestinian campus occupation *** 2024 University of California, Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus occupation *** 2024 University of Southern California pro-Palestinian campus occupation *** 2024 University of Texas at Austin pro-Palestinian campus protests *** 2024 University of Virginia pro-Palestinian campus occupation *** 2024 University of Washington pro-Palestinian campus occupation

Other

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* Protests after the passage of the

Alien and Sedition Acts The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were a set of four United States statutes that sought, on national security grounds, to restrict immigration and limit 1st Amendment protections for freedom of speech. They were endorsed by the Federalist Par ...

* 2015 Armenian March for Justice *

Anti-nuclear protests in the United States The Anti-nuclear war movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, n ...

Bonus Army The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstration (protest), demonstrators—17,000 veterans of United States in World War I, U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-193 ...

Deaf President Now Deaf President Now (DPN) was a student protest in March 1988 at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. The protest began on March 6, 1988, when the Board of Trustees announced its decision to appoint a hearing candidate, Elisabeth Zinser, over the ...

* Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews * San Francisco tech bus protests * Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes * John Sinclair Freedom Rally * March for Truth * Million Muslim March * Million Puppet March *

Project Chanology Project Chanology (also called Operation Chanology) was a protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous (group), Anonymous, a leaderless Internet-based group. "Chanology" is a portmanteau of "4chan" ...

Protests against Elon Musk Starting in 2019, protests against businessman Elon Musk arose from various controversies, with the latest cases in 2025 reacting to Musk's involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Donald Trump's Second presidency of Don ...

Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, capitalism, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial ...

* One Nation Working Together rally * Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear * Restoring Honor rally * Stop Watching Us *

Tesla Takedown Tesla Takedown is a grassroots protest movement that arose in early 2025 targeting Tesla, Inc. and its CEO, Elon Musk. Protesters have organized peaceful demonstrations at Tesla stores across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australasia ...

* Tractorcade *

U.S. national anthem protests Protests during the playing of the United States national anthem have had many causes, including civil rights, anti-conscription, anti-war, anti-nationalism, and religious reservations. Such protests have occurred since at least the 1890s, ...

* Women's Marches *

* 2019 Women's March