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Wyoming's population is 93.2% White alone and 1.2% Black alone. [4] Some of these Wyoming protests were organized by African-American people, however, others were organized by European-American people and even Native Americans who voiced their need to show solidarity with the African-American community nationwide. [5] [6] [3]
On May 5, 2023, protests took place across the city, including locations such as the Broadway-Lafayette Street station, the Washington Square Park, and outside the Manhattan district attorney's office, calling for criminal charges to be brought. [206] Protests were again held on May 6, 2023, at various locations in Manhattan. [207]
On May 29, about 125 protesters attended a candlelight vigil near the steps of the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne. [158] Peaceful protests were also held in Cheyenne on May 30 and May 31. [ 159 ] The nightly protests in Laramie were held for three weeks; the largest of these attracted an estimated 1,000 protesters. [ 160 ]
Size matters — at least when it comes to the size of our protests. Though final count is still being tabulated, researchers Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman of the Crowd Counting Consortium ...
Like today's protests, many past student movements have been polarizing. A majority of Americans said in Gallup surveys in 1963 and 1964 that mass demonstrations by Blacks for racial equality were ...
Wyoming Equality was one of the organizers for the Cheyenne #StoptheBans protest that drew women from across the state. [32] Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, dozens of abortion rights protestors rallied and marched outside Wyoming's only clinic offering abortion services in Casper. [33]
Soon after the Civil War, women gained the right to vote in Wyoming — even before the territory became the 44th state. But over the past 130 years, the state has continued to, ever so slowly ...
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...