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Table One

Below are some political uses of the Green

Reprinted from the OAH Magazine of History
16 (Winter 2002). ISSN 0882-228X
Copyright (c) 2002, Organization of American Historians

 

1934

1940

1967

1971


1972

1980

1989



1991

1991


1996

2000

19 April demonstration against the New Deal.

Demonstration against a possible FDR third term.

Rally in support of Vietnam War effort.

Memorial Day protest encampment of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Memorial Day vigil for lives lost in the Vietnam War.

Flag Day rally against the draft.

Vigil to honor Chinese who died in Tiananmen Square. Comparison made with those who died on the Green in 1775.

Ceremony in support of soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf.

Demonstration against Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Pat Buchanan speech and counterdemonstration.

December demonstration in protest of town decision to remove crèche from the Green.

Most of this table derived from Emily Sterzin, "A Brief History of the Battle Green," unpublished paper.