List of protests in the United States

Last updated February 23, 2025

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The Boston Tea Party is a well-known protest in American history. Boston Tea Party w.jpg — The Boston Tea Party is a well-known protest in American history.

This is a list of protests in the United States.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2018)

Presidents

Protests against George W. Bush (2001-2009)
- January 20, 2005, counter-inaugural protest
Protests against Barack Obama (2009-2016)
- Tea Party protests (2009-2010)
Protests against Donald Trump (2017-2020)
- January 20, 2017, counter-inagural protests
- March for Truth (2017)
- Tax March (2017)
- Impeachment March (2017)
- Not My Presidents Day (2019)
- 2019 Presidents Day protest
Protests against Joe Biden (2020-2024)
- 2020 election protests
- 2024 election protests

Party conventions

Issues

2017 Women's March in Washington, D.C. Women's March on Washington (32593123745).jpg — 2017 Women's March in Washington, D.C.

Abortion

March for Life (1974-Present)
March for Women's Lives (2004)
Walk for Life West Coast (2005-present)
United States abortion protests (2022–present)

Environment

People's Climate March in New York City, 2014 9-21 People's Climate March-.jpg — People's Climate March in New York City, 2014

Earth Day (1970-Present)
University of California, Berkeley oak grove controversy (2006-2008)
Forward on Climate (2013)
March Against Monsanto (2013)
People's Climate March (2014)
Seattle Arctic drilling protests (2015)
Dakota Access Pipeline protests (2016-2017)
Stop Line 3 (2016-Present)
March for Science (2017)
- March for Science Portland (2017)
- March for Science Seattle (2017)
People's Climate March (2017)
Bayou Bridge Pipeline protests (2017-2019)
Fridays for Future (2019-Present)
- September 2019 climate strikes (2019)
Thacker Pass lithium mine protests (2021-2023)

Education

Electoral

Draft Eisenhower movement (1948)
Dump Johnson movement (1968)
Democrats for Nixon (1972)
Haley Voters for Harris (2024)
Calls for Joe Biden to drop re-election bid (2024)
Dump Trump movement (2015-Ongoing)
Democracy Spring (2016-2019)
2020–21 United States election protests
- January 6 United States Capitol attack (2021)
2025 People's March

Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913 in Washington, D.C. Inez Milholland 1913 two.jpg — Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913 in Washington, D.C.

Feminism

Woman Suffrage Procession (1913)
Women's liberation movement (1960s-1980s)
- Miss America protest (1968)
- Women's Strike for Equality (1970)
- March for the Equal Rights Amendment (1978)
- Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice (1983)
2017 Women's March
- Women's March on Portland (2017)
- Women's March on Seattle (2017)
Day Without a Woman (2017)
2018 Women's March
2019 Women's March
2020 Women's March
2021 Women's March
2022 Women's March
2025 People's March

Globalization

Guns

March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., 2018 Banners and signs at March for Our Lives - 027.jpg — March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., 2018

Million Mom March (2000, 2001)
2016 United States House of Representatives sit-in
2018 United States gun violence protests
March for Our Lives (2018, 2022)
2020 VCDL Lobby Day

Immigration

Day Without Immigrants 2017 in Northfield, Minnesota Day Without Immigrants 2017 in Northfield, Minnesota 20170216-0025 (32865989322).jpg — Day Without Immigrants 2017 in Northfield, Minnesota

2006 United States immigration reform protests (2006)
March 2006 LAUSD student walkouts (2006)
Great American Boycott (2006)
2007 MacArthur Park rallies (2007)
Legalize LA (2008)
March for America (2010)
2017 May Day protests (2017)
Day Without Immigrants 2017 (2017)
Protests against Executive Order 13769 (2017)
Protests against the Trump administration family separation policy (2018)
Women Disobey (2018)
Families Belong Together (2018)
Day Without Immigrants (2025)
50501 (2025-Ongoing)
2025 United States protests against mass deportation

Labor

LGBTQ+ rights

March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in front of the White House, 1993 09a.LGBT.MOW.25April1993 (23693190084).jpg — March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in front of the White House, 1993

The Sip-In (1966)
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1979)
Dyke March (1981-Present)
Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1987)
March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993)
Hamilton Square Baptist Church protests (1993)
Millennium March on Washington (2000)
National Equality March (2009)
Legalize Gay (2009)
National Pride March (2017)

Poverty

Poor People's Campaign (1968)
Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival (2018)
Really Really Free Market (2003-Ongoing)

Race

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., 1963 IhaveadreamMarines.jpg — March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., 1963

Civil rights movement (1865–1896)
Civil rights movement (1896–1954)
- Anti-lynching movement (1890s-1930s)
  - Silent Parade (1917)
- New Negro movement (1918-1930s)
1902 kosher meat boycott
Chicano Movement (1940s-1970s)
- East L.A. walkouts (1968)
- Chicano Moratorium
- Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal protests (2020)
1933 Madison Square Garden protest
Civil rights movement (1954-1968)
- Sit-in protests (1939-1964)
  - Alexandria Library sit-in (1939)
  - Royal Ice Cream sit-in (1957)
  - Dockum Drug Store sit-in (1958)
  - Katz Drug Store sit-in (1958)
  - Biloxi wade-ins (1959-1963)
  - Greensboro sit-ins (1960)
    - Sit-in movement (1960-1964)
      - Nashville sit-ins (1960)
      - Atlanta sit-ins (1960-1961)
      - Tougaloo Nine (1961)
      - Savannah Protest Movement (1960-1963)
- Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957)
- Albany Movement (1961-1962)
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963)
- Selma to Montgomery marches (1965)
- March Against Fear (1966)
- Memphis sanitation strike (1968)
- Ghetto riots (1964–1969)
  - Harlem riot of 1964 (1964)
  - Long, hot summer of 1967 (1967)
    - 1967 Detroit riot (1967)
    - 1967 Newark riots (1967)
- Black Action Movement (1970, 1975, 1987)
Silent Vigil at Duke University (1968)
Black power movement (1966-1980s)
- 1987 Forsyth County protests (1987)
- 1992 Los Angeles riots (1992)
- Million Man March (1995)
- Million Woman March (1997)
Red Power movement (1960s-1970s)
- Trail of Broken Treaties (1972)
American Indian Movement (1968-Ongoing)
- Trail of Broken Treaties (1972)
- Dakota Access Pipeline protests (2016-2017)
- Indigenous Peoples March (2019)
- Christopher Columbus Statue toppling (2020)
Black Lives Matter (2013-Ongoing)
- Ferguson unrest (2014-2015)
- 2015 Baltimore protests (2015)
- Jamar Clark protests (2015)
- Keith Lamont Scott protests (2016)
- Red House eviction defense (2020)
- Stop Cop City (2020-2024)
- Protests during United States racial unrest (2020–2023)
  - Breonna Taylor protests (2020-2022)
  - Blackout Tuesday (2020)
  - George Floyd protests (2020-Ongoing)
    - Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (2020)
    - George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul (2020-2023)
      - Protests in Minneapolis regarding the trial of Derek Chauvin (2021)
      - 2021 Uptown Minneapolis unrest (2021)
      - George Floyd Square occupied protest (2020-Ongoing)
  - Kenosha protests (2020)
    - 2020 American athlete strikes (2020)
  - Strike for Black Lives (coalition protest) (2020)
  - Strike for Black Lives (academic protest) (2020)
  - Daunte Wright protests (2021-2022)
  - Amir Locke protests (2022)
  - Tyre Nichols protests (2023)
20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else (2015)
Stop Asian Hate (2021-2022)

Religion

Washington for Jesus (1980)
Godless Americans March on Washington (2002)

Response to Coronavirus

COVID-19 protests in the United States (2020-2021)

Taxes

Tea Party protest in Hartford, Connecticut, 2009 Tea Party Protest, Hartford, Connecticut, 15 April 2009 - 060.jpg — Tea Party protest in Hartford, Connecticut, 2009

War

September 15, 2007 anti-war protest in Washington, D.C. Marching towards the Capital - September 15, 2007.jpg — September 15, 2007 anti-war protest in Washington, D.C.

See also

Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Protests
and events

General	1960s Berkeley protests Central Park be-ins Draft evasion in the Vietnam War Draft-card burning
Before 1967	Edmonton aircraft bombing 1965 March against the Vietnam War Alice Herz, Donald W. Duncan, Norman Morrison, Roger Allen LaPorte 1965 political self-immolations Fort Hood Three Human Be-In
1967	Angry Arts week "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" Court-martial of Howard Levy April 15, 1967 Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations March on the Pentagon Flower Power photo The Ultimate Confrontation Nhat Chi Mai self-immolation
1968	1968 Democratic National Convention protests "The whole world is watching" Columbia University protests of 1968 Court-martial of Susan Schnall Presidio mutiny
1969	Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District Bed-in Chicago Seven Weather High School Jailbreaks Days of Rage Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
1970	Greenwich Village townhouse explosion Free The Army tour Kent State shootings Fort Lewis Six Student strike of 1970 Hard Hat Riot Sterling Hall bombing
1971	Winter Soldier Investigation 1971 May Day protests Clay v. United States FTA Show Pentagon Papers

People and
organizations

Related

v t e Protests against the Iraq War
One-time protests	Halloween 2002 February 15, 2003 March 20, 2003 Port of Oakland, April 7, 2003 2005 counter-inaugural March and April 2005 September 24, 2005 January 27, 2007 March 17, 2007 Port of Tacoma, 2007 September 15, 2007 March 19, 2008 European Peace Marches Tent State University Turn Your Back on Bush Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan
Ongoing protests	Arlington Southwest Arlington West Berkeley Marines controversy Bring Them Home Now Tour Camp Casey, Texas Lafayette hillside memorial
List of veterans critical of the Iraq War

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