List of protests in the United States

This is a list of protests in the United States.

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

Presidents

• Protests against George W. Bush
• Protests against Barack Obama
• Protests against Donald Trump

Party conventions

• 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity
• 2000 Democratic National Convention protest activity
• 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity

Issues

2017 Women's March in Washington, D.C.

Abortion

• March for Life (Washington, D.C.)
• March for Women's Lives

Environment

People's Climate March in New York City, 2014

• Bayou Bridge Pipeline protests
• Earth Day 1970, et al.
• Dakota Access Pipeline protests
• Forward on Climate
• March Against Monsanto
• March for Science Portland
• People's Climate March (2014)
• People's Climate March (2017)
• Seattle Arctic drilling protests
• School strike for climate
• Stop Line 3
• Thacker Pass lithium mine protests

Globalization

• 1999 Seattle WTO protests
• October Rebellion
• Washington A16, 2000

Guns

March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., 2018

• 2018 United States gun violence protests
• 2016 United States House of Representatives sit-in
• March for Our Lives
• Million Mom March
• 2020 VCDL Lobby Day

Immigration

Day Without Immigrants 2017 in Northfield, Minnesota

• 2006 United States immigration reform protests
• 2007 MacArthur Park rallies
• 2017 May Day protests
• Day Without Immigrants 2017
• Great American Boycott
• March 2006 LAUSD student walkouts
• March for America

Labor

• Coxey's Army
• Fry's Army
• Minneapolis general strike of 1934
• San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994
• Solidarity Day march

LGBTQ+ rights

March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in front of the White House, 1993

• Hamilton Square Baptist Church protests
• National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
• March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation
• Millennium March on Washington
• National Equality March
• National Pride March
• Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

Race

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

• 1987 Forsyth County protests
• 2015 Baltimore protests
• Biloxi wade-ins
• Ferguson unrest
• Greensboro sit-ins
• Kenosha protests
• March Against Fear
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
• Memphis sanitation strike
• Million Man March
• 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else
• Million Woman March
• Nashville sit-ins
• Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
• Royal Ice Cream sit-in
• Selma to Montgomery marches
• Silent Parade
• Trail of Broken Treaties
• George Floyd protests

Religion

• Godless Americans March on Washington
• Washington for Jesus

Response to Coronavirus

• Protests in the United States over responses to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic

Taxes

Tea Party protest in Hartford, Connecticut, 2009

• Tax March
• Taxpayer March on Washington
• Tea Party protests
• Tax resistance in the United States

War

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

See linked articles for sublists of notable protests.

• Rabbis' march (1943) requesting the Allies help stop the destruction of European Jewry
• List of protests against the Vietnam War (1945-1973)
  • 1968 Columbia University protests (Vietnam war links and a segregated gymnasium)
• Protests against the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
• Protests against the Iraq War (2003-2011)
• Protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
• Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States (2023-)

Women's rights

Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913 in Washington, D.C.

• Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913 in Washington, D.C., led by Alice Paul
• March for the Equal Rights Amendment

Other

Occupy Wall Street in New York City, 2011

• Protests after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts
• 2015 Armenian March for Justice
• Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
• Bonus Army
• Deaf President Now
• Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews
• San Francisco tech bus protests
• Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes
• John Sinclair Freedom Rally
• March for Truth
• Million Muslim March
• Million Puppet March
• Miss America protest
• Occupy Wall Street
• One Nation Working Together rally
• Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
• Restoring Honor rally
• Stop Watching Us
• Tractorcade
• U.S. national anthem protests
• Women's Marches
• 2017 Women's March
• 2018 Women's March
• 2019 Women's March

See also

• List of protests in the 21st century
• List of protests in the United States by size
• List of rallies and protest marches in Washington, D.C..