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Voicing Dissent In America.
A View Of Some Successful Protest Movements.
The Boston Tea Party of 1773:
Americans objected to taxation without representation by the British Colonial Government. The incident resulted in the making of the First Amendment.
‘The First Amendment holds, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or the press, or right of the people, peaceably to assemble and to petition the government to a redress of grievances.’
Source: https://constitution.congress.gov>amendment-1
The Bonus Army protest march in 1932 was exemplary:
An unarmed army of 17,000 World War 1 veterans camped in front of the Capitol in 1894 to demand the promised bonus for wartime service. They needed money during the depression. But Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower ordered the soldiers to charge the veterans with horses & bayonets & drive them from the city.
But the ‘Hoovervilles’ gathered from all over the country to support the peaceful protestors. They regarded the refusal of the promised bonus as a betrayal by the government.
Congress finally granted the bonus to each…
