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On July 14, 1964, Green and Richard Daly, a white college student, scaled the Gateway Arch to protest the exclusion of blacks from federal contracts and jobs related to the construction of the Arch. [1] Green, Daly, and protesters on the ground demanded that MacDonald Construction Company, the contractor responsible for constructing the Arch, raise the number of African Americans employed on ...
A view of the city of St. Louis from the observation room of the St. Louis Arch Bi-State put in $3.3 million revenue bonds and has operated the tram system since. [ 119 ] The tram in the north leg entered operation in June 1967, [ 76 ] but visitors were forced to endure three-hour-long waits until April 21, 1976, when a reservation system was ...
Kimberly Gardner, the circuit attorney (chief prosecutor) for the City of St. Louis, Missouri, told CNN in a statement, "We must protect the right to peacefully protest, and any attempt to chill it through intimidation or threat of deadly force will not be tolerated." [23] These protesters were related to the George Floyd protests in Missouri.
A transgender woman’s use of the women’s locker room in a suburban St. Louis gym prompted a protest, a plan for a boycott and calls for an investigation by the state’s politically vulnerable ...
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St. Louis’ top prosecutor charged a husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns as protesters marched outside their home.
[32] [33] On the same night David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired St. Louis police captain, was shot and killed while he was trying protect a pawn shop from being looted. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Four police officers were shot during violent protests just after midnight on Tuesday, June 2.
A group of protesters attending a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers at Busch Stadium unfurled a banner which depicted a cardinal, to match St. Louis' baseball mascot, with #ExpectUs written across the bird's jersey and the bird holding a "Black Lives Matter" sign, and read at the bottom "Stop Killing Us."