1948 cafeteria strike
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1947 DC school boycott
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World Citizen: 1948-49
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Student Peace Union: 1958-67
Debs in DC: 1921
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Harrisburg 7: 1971-72
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Safeway Jim Crow: 1935-41
Black postal clerks: 1868-1940
Frederick Douglas: 1818-1895
Cafeteria Local 471
Laundry strike: 1937
Interracial dance: 1929
Adam Clayton Powell in DC: 1940-70
Jim Crow at U.S. Engraving: 1947-50
Crime conference: 1934
Maryland lynch mobs: 1930s
Parents League: 1919
DC’s fighting barber: 1947-54
DC swimming pool integration: 1949-54
DC New Negro Alliance: 1934-43
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Mary McLeod Bethune
Truman at NAACP: 1947
African American GAR: 1900-35
Youth Congress: 1934-41
For fair employment: 1941-50
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Gone with the Wind: 1940
Interracial strike: 1937
Georgia lynching protest: 1946
DC Scottsboro action: 1932-35
Free Willie McGee: 1945-51
Bilbo has got to go: 1945-46
Mary Church Terrell: 1863-1954
Martinsville 7: 1951
No police brutality: 1941
No police brutality: 1936-40
No VA Jim Crow?: 1946
DC Jim Crow Theaters: 1922-54
Anti-lynching campaign: 1922
MD crab strike: 1938
Marie Richardson remembered
Fighting Capital Transit racism: 1941-55
Civil Rights & Black Liberation Struggles after 1955
King in DC: 1956-65
VA school segregation: 1957
Youth march: 1959
DC civil rights: 1966
Adam Clayton Powell in DC: 1940-70
Malcolm in DC: 1961-63
NoVa theater Jim Crow: 1962-63
Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney: 1964
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MD school segregation: 1954-74
Rats cause riots: 1967
Poor People’s march: 1968
20th Anniversary march: 1983
Giles-Johnson: 1961-67
King holiday: 1968-86
DC civil rights: 1962-64
Bowie State: 1968
UMD Black Student Union: 1968-75
Stadium pickets: 1963-90
Terrence Johnson: 1979-80
March on Washington: 1963
Laurence G. Henry: 1960-61
March on DC: 1958
Cambridge, MD rights: 1963-67
DC Selma reaction: 1965
Prayer Pilgrimage: 1957
Demand open housing: 1963-66
MD civil rights: 1960-68
MLK assassinated: 1968
Glen Echo picket: 1960
Rockville, MD sit-in: 1960
Homes not roads: 1969
100 hour Hiser picket: 1960
DC rights warrior: 1960
Resistance to the Klan in MD:
African Liberation: 1972-86
DC Black Panthers: 1969-74
VA restaurant sit-ins: 1960
Racism at the Library of Congress: 1971-73
Children’s march for survival: 1972
Communists
Laundry strike: 1937
Cafeteria Local 471
Federal workers school
Interracial Dance: 1929
Communist Assn.: 1944
Anti-Deng protests: 1979
May Day: 1935
MD crab strike: 1938
Seamen march on DC: 1937
Md.-D.C. communists: 1920-65
Release John Porter: 1928
Bicentennial protests: 1976
Hunger Marches: 1931-32
Immigration rights: 1930
Rosenberg execution: 1953
Celanese strike: 1936
Passaic strike: 1926
Madalyn Murray O’Hair: 1963
DC unemployed protest: 1930
DC Red Scares
Marie Richardson remembered
Sammie Abbott appreciation
DC Scottsboro action: 1932-35
No police brutality: 1936-40
Police raid Progressives: 1948
Spanish Civil War: 1936-39
First Red Scare: 1919-25
D.C. Area Miscellaneous
CCNV: 1973-1990
D.C. voting rights: 1932-64
Group Health: 1959
Hit and Stay: 1968-75
Homes not roads: 1969
Police raid Progressives: 1948
Sammie Abbott appreciation
Free Press battle: 1969
Surveying police surveyors: 1971-73
Fight Against Fascism
Spanish Civil War: 1936-39
Wallace in MD: 1964-72
Responding to the right: 1940-85
Liberation of Dachau: 1945
Off to fight fascism: 1942-45
Anti-fascist protests: 1930s
Resistance to the Klan in MD:
Immigrant Rights
Sacco & Vanzetti: 1920-27
Anti-deportation: 1940
Immigrant rights: 1977
Mt. Pleasant riot: 1991
Immigration rights: 1930
Meeting at Central Presbyterian: 1973
LBGT
LBGT rights: 1975-90
DC LGBT rights: 1965-74
MoCo gay teacher fired: 1972-73
Labor Movement
Safeway Jim Crow: 1935-41
Black postal clerks: 1868-1940
Government union: 1934
Patco strike: 1981
Laundry strike: 1937
Cafeteria Local 471
Federal workers school: 1937
Big Bill in DC: 1915
Price controls: 1946
Navy Yard wage cuts: 1921
Jim Crow at US Engraving: 1947-50
Tom Mooney in DC: 1939
Release John Porter: 1928
John L. Lewis in DC: 1935-69
Postal employees: 1934
Terrence Powderly: 1849-1924
Group Health: 1959
Debs in DC: 1921
Hotel workers: 1930-49
Celanese strike: 1936
DC truck strike: 1940 ca.
Transit strike: 1955
Transit strike: 1951
Samuel Gompers: 1850-1924
Passaic strike: 1926
Solidarity Day: 1981-82
Stadium pickets: 1963-90
D.C. Labor Meetings
Government workers: 1928
Communications workers: 1940-80
ATU 689 birth: 1916-17
D.C. area strike wave: 1945-46
Capital Transit strikes: 1945
Mother Jones 1837-1930
Taft-Hartley protests: 1947
Seamen march on DC: 1937
WPA protests: 1936-40
Interracial strike: 1937
DC streetcar women: 1943-61
MoCo teachers strike: 1968
MD crab strike: 1938
Marie Richardson remembered
Fighting Capital Transit racism: 1941-55
Post busts pressmen’s union: 1975
Post printers lockout: 1973
K. Graham burned in effigy: 1976
DC Metro wildcats strikes: 1978
Farmworkers Safeway boycott: 1973
Transit strike: 1974
Confrontation at Mineral Pigment: 1973
On the job murder at Metro: 1974
Racism at the Library of Congress: 1971-73
Terps at issue in hotel fight: 1974
Union fight at Lanham hotel: 1974
Hotel workers hit GOP: 1974
Say no to Rhodesian chrome: 1973
Caucus pickets steel talks: 1977
Farah boycott: 1973
May Day picket: 1974
Teamsters strike Safeway: 1974
Meatcutters strike betrayed: 1973
Retail clerks lose strike: 1974
ATU Local 689: No Service 1974
Union staff strike NEA union: 1974
People’s Drug strike: 1974
Fairfax Hotel strike: 1974
Painters strike: 1937
Longshore battle: 1951-54
Wartime strikes: 1942-45
First Red Scare: 1919-25
Marijuana
Honor America Day: 1970
Yippie smoke-in: 1973
Legalize pot: 1979
Miscellaneous
Revolutionary culture
Random radicals
Statement flags: 1930-75
National Liberation & Anti-Imperialism
(For Indochina War, see Vietnam War)
GW Sino Soviet: 1969
DC Area SDS: 1963-69
War against Iraq: 1991
Spanish Civil War: 1936-39
NSA-CIA to NLF: 1967-71
Palestine protest: 1971
Puerto Rican nationalists: 1950-54
Irish republicans: 1919-21
No to imperialism: 1920-90
African liberation: 1972-86
Free 12 Iranian artists: 1973
Say no to Rhodesian chrome: 1973
CIA out of Greece: 1974
Down with the Shah: 1974
Keep out of Mideast war: 1973
Antiwar: 1917
Prison Rights
Rebellion against system: DC jail 1972
DC Women’s Detention Center: 1973
Tear the walls down: 1973
DC jail uprising trial: 1974
Slave Resistance/Revolts/Military Action
Escape from slavery: 1853-58
Frederick Douglas: 1818-1895
Fight for freedom: 1861-65
MD slave revolt: 1845
African American GAR: 1930-35
Christiana Riot: 1851
Socialism
Debs in D.C.: 1921
People’s Party: 1972
Students
Catholic U strike: 1967
Youth Congress: 1934-41
Anti-deportation: 1940
NSA-CIA to NLF: 1967-71
DC area SDS: 1963-69
No forced ROTC: 1930-70
GW Sino Soviet: 1969
Bowie State: 1968
UMD Black Student Union: 1968-75
Howard U protests: 1967
U of MD ignites: 1970
Cutbacks and layoffs must stop at the U. of MD: 1973
ROTC off campus: U of MD 1971
U of MD antiwar protests: 1972
Terps at issue in hotel fight: 1974
MoCo teachers strike: 1968
Rennie Davis at Montgomery College: 1973
Transit in the DC Area
Group Health: 1959
Exact bus fare: 1968
D.C. streetcar women: 1943-60
Transit strike: 1974
ATU 689 birth: 1916-17
On the job murder at Metro: 1974
ATU Local 689: No Service 1974
Fighting Capital Transit racism: 1941-55
Transit strike: 1955
Transit strike: 1951
Capital Transit strikes; 1945
DC Metro wildcat strikes: 1978
U.S. National Domestic Politics & Issues
Farmers’ protest: 1977-85
No social security cuts: 1981
Earth Day: 1970
Price controls: 1946
Townsend pension plan: 1936
Bicentennial protests: 1976
Chippewas protest on the Mall: 1970
Throw the Bum Out: 1973-74
Wanted: William E Colby 1973
Madalyn Murray O’Hair: 1963
BIA takeover: 1972
Unemployed
Mr. Zero in DC: 1921-32
Hunger marches: 1931-32
Bonus Army: 1932-34
Coxey’s army: 1894-44
Jobless: 1949
Youth Congress: 1934-41
D.C. unemployed protest: 1930
WPA protests: 1936-40
Unemployed League: 1934
Workers Alliance: 1935-40
Cutbacks and layoffs must stop at the U of MD: 1973
No cuts in jobless benefits: 1975-77
Veterans
Bonus Army: 1932-34
Dewey Canyon III: 1971
African American GAR: 1930-35
Vets march on the White House: 1974
Servicemen demand bonus: 1973
VA target of vets picket: 1974
Vets hit military court: 1974
Demanding justice at Justice: 1974
Vietnam War
Protest Viet partition: 1954
DC area SDS: 1963-69
Antiwar: 1967
DC antiwar: 1971
DC national antiwar rally: 1970
NSA-CIA to NLF: 1967-71
Dewey Canyon III: 1971
Chicago 8/7 conspiracy: 1968-70
DC Weather bombings: 1971-75
DC Anti-Vietnam War: 1968
DC Anti-Vietnam War: 1966
Hit and stay: 1968-75
Largest Anti-Viet War protest: 1971
Moratorium: Oct. 1969
Anti-draft protests: 1947-72
Howard U protests: 1967
Moratorium: Nov. 1969
Mayday: May 5, 1971
Honor America Day: 1970
DC anti-Vietnam War: 1965
Mayday: May 4, 1971
Mayday: May 3, 1971
Mayday: May 2, 1971
Mayday: May 1, 1971
March on Pentagon: 1967
Republican convention: 1972
Rennie Davis at Montgomery College: 1973
U of MD ignites: 1970
Counter-Inaugural: 1969
Inauguration protest: 1973
ROTC off campus: U of MD 1971
DC Anti-Vietnam War: 1972
U of MD antiwar protests: 1972
Final march: Vietnam War 1975
March on the Pentagon: 1972
Wanted: William E. Colby: 1973
Harrisburg 7: 1971-72
Women’s Rights
Abortion rights: 1989
Green Guards: 1940
Women’s vote: 1910-20
Women against war: 1920-80
Jeanette Rankin: 1914-40
Women’s International League 1915-90
Universal childcare: 1971
DC streetcar women: 1943-60
Women’s rights: 1970
DC Abortion: 1972
Ratify the ERA: 1976
MD crab strike: 1938
Marie Richardson remembered
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