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13 Lesser-Known Protests Throughout American History

Protesting is as American as apple pie.

13 Lesser-Known Protests Throughout American History

October 13, 2021

Within our school education, it can seem that oppressed groups just waited around for liberation, but that's never been the case. Americans who are against protesting must remember the Boston Tea Party was a violent riot that our country was founded on. We can’t possibly learn of all the protests throughout American history that would go on to inspire larger and/or more influential acts of resistance, but here are 13 examples of protests that are often left out of textbooks.

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CRACKED.COM 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot GENE COMPTON'S CAFETERIA RIOT 1966 HERE MARKS THE SITE OF GENE COMPTON'S CAFETERIA WHERE A RIOT OOK PLACE ONE AUGUST NIGHT WHEN TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND GAY MEN DOD UP FOR THEIR RAGHTS AND FOLIG Before the Stonewall Riots, a trans woman in San Francisco refused to BE arrested (most likely for female impersonation) by throwing a coffee in a cop's face, while in a popular hang-out for trans women and drag queens. This caused a street fight to start between the community and police. The woman's name and even the date of the event is — Source: Advocate

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CRACKED.COM 1 960 Bloody Wade-In You (hopefully) learned about the sit-ins and bus boycotts of the Civil Rights Movement, but there were several wade-ins in Biloxi, Mississippi, to protest segregated beaches. In one, police stood by while a white mob violently attacked the 125 Black protestors with pipes and chains. Five years later in federal court, the beach would become more accessible to Black people. — Source: Smithsonian

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CRACKED.COM 1954 McDonogh Day Boycott In New Orleans, on slave holder McDonogh's birthday each year, school children had to lay flowers down at his statue. Black children were forced to wait in the hot sun, going last. Civil rights leaders organized one of the first public schooling civil rights protest that resulted in 000 Black children boycotting the ceremony. — Source: New Orleans Historical

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Segregation

CRACKED.com 1945 Freeman Field Mutiny Black officers in the segregated Air Force planned a display of civil resistance, with small groups entering into the white-only club areas. This resulted in 101 men being arrested. RESULTS: New regulations banned racial segregation on U.S. Air Force bases. — Source: National Air and Space Museum

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CRACKED.COM 1938 Hilo Massacre In Hawai'i, 200 union workers protested the arrival of the SS Waialeale. 70 police officers tear gassed, hosed, and fired riot guns into the unarmed crowd, injuring 50 women, men, and children. — Source: University of Hawai'i

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CRACKED.COM 1933 Anti-Nazi Boycott Only months after Hitler was appointed Chancellor, American Jewish people organized an anti-Nazi rally. Over 000 people flooded Madison Square Garden, calling for an end to the brutal treatment of Jewish Germans. — Source: Jewish Virtual Library

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CRACKED.COM 1917 Silent Parade In the first large New York demonstration for Black lives, 10,000 Black Americans marched silently to protest recent lynchings and the 39 murders of Black people during the St. Louis Riots. After the protest, the organizers went to a planned meeting with President Eisenhower and were stood up. — Source: National Humanities Center, Library of Congress

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CRACKED.com 1913 Suffrage Parade Before the innarguration of Woodrow Wilson, 8000 people joined in D.C. to march for women's suffrage. The parade included a performance watched by over 20,000 spectators. A New York Times journalist saidit was one of the most impressively beautiful spectacles ever staged inthis country. Angry spectators hospitalized over 100 marchers as police watched. — Source: The Atlantic and LIbrary of Congress

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CRACKED.COM 1902 Kosher Meat Boycott WOMEN RESUME RIOTS AGAINST MEAT SHOPS Brooklyn Police Take Twenty-two Prisoners in Street Fight. Jewish women on NYC's Lower East Side took to streets to protest the drastic, monopolistic price increase of kosher meat. 20,000 people attacked butcher shops, breaking windows and lighting meat on fire. RESULTS: Prices were dropped to 14 cents a pound, making kosher meat more affordable again. — Source: Jewish Virtual Library

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CRACKED.COM 1857 Poisoning PRISON USH 3 Tablets QUININE LANTONIN SULPHATE CALONEL Not all acts of protest are large demonstrations or uprisings. For example, a Black enslaved woman in Augusta, Georgia, was a cook who poisoned 37 white people with arsenic in their food, six of whom died. — Source: Indiana University Purdue University

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CRACKED.COM 1811 German Coast Uprising 20 enslaved people raided a plantation that was a warehouse for the local militia. Their numbers grew up to 125 as they moved, singing Creole protest songs while pillaging plantations and killing whites. Despite the group not having military experience, they held off the U.S. Army for two days, until they ran out of ammunition. All 100 survivors were executed.

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CRACKED.COM 1739 Stono Rebellion 20 enslaved people raided a warehouse, where they put the decapitated heads of the white owners on the storefront for all to see. They marched towards the freedom of a Spanish colony, burning houses and killing white people along the way. Other enslaved people joined them, totaling around 100. They marched for over a week until English colonists killed many of them. — Source: PBS

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CRACKED.COM 1 688 Germantown Protest You How fearfult funthessed when many on they raffel. being dfraid They Slaves what and fold Now is glis Apr worfe for Them jay okey as yea rafier hear Regars are brought them mary of are. One of the earliest actions against slavery was by Quakers in the Pennsylvania Colony. Four people drafted the first, formal anti-slavery document in what would become the United States. The declaration was largely ignored within even the Quaker community. — Source: National Museum of African American History

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