List of protest marches on Washington, D.C.

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The following is a list of protest marches on Washington, D.C..

1 Pre-1900
2 1900-1949
3 1950-1999
4 2000-

[edit] Pre-1900

April 30, 1894 - Coxey's Army. Protest march by unemployed American workers.

[edit] 1900-1949

March 3, 1913, Women's Suffrage march. 5,000 march to support women's voting rights.
August 8, 1925, Ku Klux Klan march. 35,000 Ku Klux Klan members march to show support for the KKK.
June 17, 1932 - Bonus Army. March by 20,000 World War I veterans and their families seeking advance payment of bonuses from the Hoover administration; several killed.

[edit] 1950-1999

August 28, 1963 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. March at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech. 250,000 march.
April 17, 1965 - March Against the Vietnam War. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held its first anti-Vietnam War protest rally in Washington. 25,000 attend.
November 27, 1965 - Another March Against the Vietnam War.
May 16, 1966 - Another March Against the Vietnam War.
October 22, 1967 - March on the Pentagon. Major march to protest the Vietnam War.
January 15, 1968 - Jeannette Rankin brigade. Called for withdrawal of troops from Vietnam.
November 15, 1969 - National Mobilization to End the War. 600,000 demonstrate against the war in Vietnam.
May 9, 1970 - Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest. A week after the Kent State shootings, a 100,000 demonstrators converged on Washington to protest the shootings and Nixon's incursion into Cambodia.
April 24, 1971 - Vietnam War Out Now rally. 500,000 call for end to Vietnam War.
May 3, 1971 - May Day Protests 1971. Mass action by Vietnam anti-war militants to shut down the federal government.
October 14, 1979 - National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights First march on Washington drew 100,000 gay men and lesbians to Washington, DC to demand equal civil rights for gay men and lesbians.
September 19, 1981, Solidarity Day march. AFL-CIO organized march to protest Reagan Administration labor and domestic policies. 260,000 march.
November 27, 1982 - Washington Anti-Klan protest 1982.
October 11, 1987 - Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The second march on Washington drew 500,000 gay men and women to protest for equal civil rights and to demand government action in the fight against AIDS.
April 25, 1993 - March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Organizers estimated 1,000,000 attended the March, but the National Park Service estimated attendance at 300,000.
October 16, 1995 - Million Man March.

[edit] 2000-

May 14, 2000 - Million Mom March. March against gun violence.
September 26, 2000 - Brides March Against Domestic Violence. Demonstration of several women in wedding dresses marching to raise domestic violence awareness.
September 29, 2001 - Originally an Anti-Capitalist Convergence-organized protest to counter planned World Bank and IMF meetings, many protesters backed out after the World Bank and IMF cancelled their meetings in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The protest turned into an anti-war rally.
April 25, 2004 - March for Women's Lives.
October 17, 2004 - Million Worker March.
January 20, 2005 - Counter-inaugural protests. Demonstrations against George W. Bush's second inauguration.
September 24, 2005 - September 24, 2005 anti-war protest. Anti-Iraq War protest.
October 15, 2005 - Millions More Movement. March to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March.