Questions tagged [protests]
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How did Nelson Mandela stay relevant and a strong leader during his imprisonment? [closed]
While Nelson Mandela was in jail, what was happening in South Africa that made Mandela relevant?
Mandela spent 27 years in jail, which was a long time. I'm curious about what was happening in South ...
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What is the source for the statement that red hands were used as a symbol of protest against the Vietnam War?
I have read that the red hand, or rather hands painted with red color, have been used as a symbol of protests against the Vietnam War:
During the Vietnam era, it was a symbol calling for strikes ...
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Why did the Hungarians protest and react so much about Khrushchevs secret speech? [closed]
I know that Khrushchev made a secret speech but I don't really understand what the speech was about and why it made the Hungarians so angry to protest.
I know that the protest was about the lack of ...
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Were there large scale protests after earlier presidential elections in the US?
After the elections (of Donald Trump as US President in 2016) there were many news reports of large-scale, mass protests throughout the US, for example:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/...
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Was violent or nonviolent protest more effective in the context of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?
Was violent or nonviolent protest more effective in the context of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement? It seems like a simple question, but on further examination it is a challenge to discern. The ...
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In Montgomery, Alabama, how common was it to be arrested for sitting in the incorrect section of the bus?
Rosa Parks' arrest, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, is the most famous case, while Claudette Colvin is often listed as the first. (Sometimes she is listed as first, other times as the first ...
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Were boycotts, divestment, and sanctions effective against apartheid?
In the 1980s there was a movement to use boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) to apply pressure on the apartheid regime in South Africa. These efforts included sports boycotts, refusal of some ...
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Are there cases of U.S. Founding Fathers burning flags of other nations?
After reviewing some arguments for and against flag burning I became curious
as to whether or not there were documented cases of the U.S. Founding Fathers (or politically influential people of the ...
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Battle of Seattle [closed]
The "Battle of Seattle," a large civil protest that led to sporadic rioting in 1999, is commonly portrayed as influential in the sociology of Western activism, and in the contemporary history of ...
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Why did anti-Chinese riots occur during the Indonesian Reformation of 1998?
The protests and events in Indonesia in May 1998 led to the fall of the dictator Suharto, the reform of Indonesian government and political system, and a more liberal and democratic era.
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From whom did Gandhi learn his protest technique of non-violence?
I know that Gandhi was involved in the civil rights movement in South Africa during he beginning of the 20th century, but was there a specific person, or group, that he learned how to protest through ...
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