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The Derry Journal, in a two-page article in their 25 January 2019 edition on the 55th anniversary of the Springtown Camp silent protest march of Tuesday 28 January 1964, quoted founder-member of NICRA Fionnbarra O'Dochartaigh confirming that that march was the first march in the civil rights campaign in Derry. [4]
Burntollet Bridge was the setting for an attack on 4 January 1969 during the first stages of the Troubles of Northern Ireland. [1] [2] A People's Democracy march from Belfast to Derry was attacked by Ulster loyalists whilst passing through Burntollet.
After marches in Belfast, in imitation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, about 40 People's Democracy members held a four-day march between Belfast and Derry starting on 1 January 1969. The march was repeatedly attacked by loyalists along its route, including an incident at Burntollet bridge on 4 January where ...
The march would then make its way down to William Street on the edge of the Bogside, and on to the Guildhall in the city centre, where a rally would be held. In response, the head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Derry, Chief Superintendent Frank Lagan, suggested that no action should be taken against the marchers, save photographing ...
The march route included the city centre, a bastion of Protestantism and out-of-bounds for Catholic public events. The DHAC said they would go ahead, forcing NICRA to agree or be seen to capitulate. Derry is a dead city: about one in five of the men is unemployed and the whole feeling is depressed. But it was electric that day. You could see it ...
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On 8 September, a notice of the "Derry march" was submitted, with the march taking place on 5 October 1968. [ 66 ] [ 62 ] The route proposed on behalf of the Civil Rights Association was one commonly followed by 'Protestant' and 'Loyalist' marches in Derry. [ 72 ]
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