Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. "Without Precedent": Coxey's Army Invades Washington, 1894 2. A "National" Demonstration: The Woman Suffrage Procession and Pageant, March 3, 1913 3. "A New Type of Lobbying": The Veterans' Bonus March of 1932 4. "Pressure, More Pressure, and Still More Pressure": The Negro March on Washington and Its Cancellation, 1941 5. "In the Great Tradition": The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963 6. The "Spring Offensive" of 1971: Radicals and Marches on Washington Epilogue Notes Bibliographical Essay Acknowledgments Index

About the Author

Lucy G. Barber is an archivist for the California State Archives in Sacramento. She has taught United States history at the University of California, Davis; Rhode Island School of Design; and Brown University.

Reviews

"Beautifully written. Lucy G. Barber has taken different stories and woven them together so that each story builds into a larger narrative about the history of political protest." - Mary L. Dudziak, author of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy