March 19
1963
Pete Seeger‘s blacklisting from the television show “Hootenanny” was protested by 50 Greenwich Village folk artists. He had become a cultural hero through his outspoken commitment to the anti-war and civil rights movements. He was involved in several civil rights campaigns in 1962-1965, and helped popularize the anthemic “We Shall Overcome.”
Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s rendition of “We Shall Overcome”.
1965
3 arrested at Chase Manhattan Bank in NYC, protesting loans to South Africa
1970
200 women seize the New York offices of “Ladies Home Journal,” demanding what they call a “Women’s Liberated Journal.”
1989
Cyprus: 4,500 join Women’s Walk Home nonviolent crossing of Green Line partition.
1978
50,000 march in Amsterdam to protest US deployment of the neutron bomb in Europe.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 