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List of protests in the United States

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List of protests in the United States

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This is a list of protests in the United States.

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

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

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-inaugural 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
Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump (2025–present)
- Stand Up for Science 2025
- 50501 protests (2025-)
- Economic Blackout (2025-)
- Hands Off protests (2025-)
- No Kings protest (2025)
- Free America Weekend (2025)

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Party conventions

Issues

Thumb — 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)

Disability

Environment

Thumb — 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

Thumb — 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

Thumb — 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

Thumb — 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
June 2025 Los Angeles protests (2025-present)

Labor

Coxey's Army (1894)
Fry's Army (1894)
Minneapolis general strike of 1934 (1934)
Delano grape strike (1965-1970)
Solidarity Day march (1981, 1991)
San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 (1994)
2010–2011 University of Puerto Rico strikes
2011 United States public employee protests
- 2011 Wisconsin protests
2012 May Day protests
2013 May Day protests
2014 May Day protests
2015 May Day protests
2017 May Day protests
2025 May Day protests
2021–2022 Columbia University strike
2023 United Auto Workers strike
2023 SAG-AFTRA strike
2023 Writers Guild of America strike

LGBTQ+ rights

Thumb — 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

Thumb — 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)
Chicano Movement (1940s-1970s)
- East L.A. walkouts (1968)
- Chicano Moratorium
- Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal protests (2020)
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)
- March Against Fear (1966)
- 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)
- U.S. national anthem kneeling protests (2016-Ongoing)
- 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)
Good Trouble Lives On (2025)

Religion

Response to Coronavirus

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

Taxes

Thumb — Tea Party protest in Hartford, Connecticut, 2009

War

Thumb — September 15, 2007 anti-war protest in Washington, D.C.

Other

Thumb — Occupy Wall Street in New York City, 2011

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