![A large crowd marches through New York City in 1937 to demand workers’ rights. Photograph: Bettmann Archive.](https://i1.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/affinity/files/2017/03/3921.jpg?resize=1010%2C606&ssl=1)
A large crowd marches through New York City in 1937 to demand workers’ rights. Photograph: Bettmann Archive.
Given the ongoing effort to quash all public dissent, and prevent people from protesting, it’s a good reminder to take a glimpse into the past, to see what people do when governments are wrong and out of control. They protest.
![The Jarrow marchers pass through the village of Lavendon, near Bedford, in October 1936. Two hundred men walked the 291 miles from Tyneside to London to deliver a petition for jobs to the government. Photograph: Getty Images.](https://i1.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/affinity/files/2017/03/3510.jpg?resize=1010%2C606&ssl=1)
The Jarrow marchers pass through the village of Lavendon, near Bedford, in October 1936. Two hundred men walked the 291 miles from Tyneside to London to deliver a petition for jobs to the government. Photograph: Getty Images.
![Protesters march on the White House in 1933 to demand a fair trial for the ‘Scottsboro Boys’. This case – in which a group of black teenagers was convicted by an all-white jury of raping a white woman, then sentenced to death – is considered a grave miscarriage of justice Photograph: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.](https://i1.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/affinity/files/2017/03/3508.jpg?resize=1010%2C696&ssl=1)
Protesters march on the White House in 1933 to demand a fair trial for the ‘Scottsboro Boys’. This case – in which a group of black teenagers was convicted by an all-white jury of raping a white woman, then sentenced to death – is considered a grave miscarriage of justice. Photograph: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.
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