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Casualties. Arrested. 12,000. The 1971 May Day protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the United States' participation in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. Over 12,000 people were arrested, the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. [1]
Beginning May 12, 1968, the newly formed Poor People's Campaign, started by the recently (April 4) assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., organized a shantytown known as Resurrection City, composed of around 3,000 black, native, and Latino militants, along with a significant contingent of hippies and diggers, encamped on the National Mall in ...
Washington DC's Willard's Hotel was the site of the unsuccessful 1861 Peace Conference. The Peace Conference of 1861 was a meeting of 131 leading American politicians in February 1861, at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the American Civil War. The conference's purpose was to avoid, if possible, the secession of the eight ...
Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:20 PM. 'We want peace': The largest political protest in US history, 45 years later. By MORGAN WHITAKER. Forty five years ago Saturday, more than a quarter million ...
September 8, 1971. ( 1971-09-08) Location. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Conductor. Maurice Peress. Mass (formally: MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers) is a musical theatre work composed by Leonard Bernstein with text by Bernstein and additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy, it ...
Revolt at Cincinnati. The Revolt at Cincinnati (also known as the Cincinnati Coup or the Cincinnati Revolution) was a change in the National Rifle Association of America 's (NRA) leadership and organizational policy which took place at the group's 1977 annual convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. Led by former NRA president Harlon Carter and gun ...
Tom Dine. Thomas A. Dine (born 29 February 1940, Cincinnati, Ohio) served as a senior policy advisor at Israel Policy Forum (IPF), assisting with policy, programming, and development decision-making in the Washington office. Dine had served as chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, president of Radio Free ...
July 18, 1980. St. Francis Xavier Church is a Catholic parish located at 611 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. This was the location of the first diocesan cathedral and the center of early Catholic life in the city. It was dedicated to St. Peter on December 17, 1826. Christ Church, founded in 1819, the city's first Catholic church, was located ...