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About this book
When Jacob Coxey's army marched into Washington, D.C., in 1894, observers didn't know what to make of this concerted effort by citizens to use the capital for national public protest. By 1971, however, when thousands marched to protest the war in Vietnam, what had once been outside the political order had become an American political norm. Lucy G. Barber's lively, erudite history explains just how this tactic achieved its transformation from unacceptable to legitimate. Barber shows how such highly visible events contributed to the development of a broader and more inclusive view of citizenship and transformed the capital from the exclusive domain of politicians and officials into a national stage for Americans to participate directly in national politics.
When Jacob Coxey's army marched into Washington, D.C., in 1894, observers didn't know what to make of this concerted effort by citizens to use the capital for national public protest. By 1971, however, when thousands marched to protest the war in Vietnam,
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Table of contents
- Cover
- MARCHING ON WASHINGTON
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. "Without Precedent" Coxey's Army Invades Washington, 1894
- 2. A "National" Demonstration The Woman Suffrage Procession and Pageant, March 3, 1913
- 3. "A New Type of Lobbying " The Veterans' Bonus March of 1932
- 4. "Pressure, More Pressure, and Still More Pressure " The Negro March on Washington and Its Cancellation, 1941
- 5. "In the Great Tradition" The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963
- 6. The "Spring Offensive" of 1971 Radicals and Marches on Washington
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Acknowledgments
- Index