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In 2017, Berman founded Zioness with a dozen friends after three Jewish participants at the Chicago Dyke March were ejected for carrying Pride flags adorned with the Star of David. Berman mobilized the new group to march in SlutWalk Chicago , a demonstration against sexual violence , bearing Star of David symbols. [ 3 ]
In January 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and nonviolent protest, moved to a small apartment on Chicago's west side. He intended to protest and bring attention to the poor living conditions for blacks in the city in an effort to promote fair housing, as related to real estate and bank ...
During the First Red Scare of 1919–20, following the 1917 Russian Revolution, anti-Bolshevik sentiment in the United States quickly followed on the anti-German sentiment arising in the war years. Many politicians and government officials, together with much of the press and the public, feared an imminent attempt to overthrow the U.S ...
Anti-suffragists and liquor interests continued to attack the constitutionality of the new law. [53] A case was brought that went before the Supreme Court of Illinois. [53] Money was raised to help fight the case on behalf of the suffragists. [53] While the case was being decided, suffragists wanted to show that women truly wanted to vote. [55]
Expectations for massive protests in Chicago — which came a month after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee — were high. Despite smaller crowds, activists at Democrats' convention ...
About 300 protesters marched swiftly through The Loop, Chicago's main business district, watched over by a double-line of heavily armed police. Led by Jacobs and other Weathermen members, the protesters suddenly broke through the police lines and rampaged through the Loop, smashing windows of cars and stores.
Chicago, which has hosted more political conventions than any other U.S. city, has been unable to escape comparisons to the infamous 1968 convention where police and anti-Vietnam War protesters ...
A woman in the front of the march shouted back with her own megaphone: “We’re not scared of you.” ... it great like ’68,” invoking the anti-Vietnam War protests that seized the city ...