List of protests in the United States

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

This is a list of protests in the United States.

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

• 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity
  • Fort Hood 43
• 2000 Democratic National Convention protest activity
• 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity
• 2023 Democratic National Committee protests
• 2024 Democratic National Convention protests

Issues

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

• 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

• Free Speech Movement (1964-1965)
  • 1960s Berkeley protests (1960)
    • Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968
• 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States

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.

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

• 1999 Seattle WTO protests (1999)
• Washington A16, 2000 (2000)
• October Rebellion (2007)

Guns

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

• 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

• 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
• 2021–2022 Columbia University strike
• 2023 United Auto Workers strike
• 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike
• 2023 Writers Guild of America strike

LGBTQ+ rights

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

• 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 protests (2009-2010)
• Taxpayer March on Washington (2009)
• Tax March (2017)

War

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

See linked articles for sublists of notable protests.

• Rabbis' march (1943)
• List of protests against the Vietnam War (1945-1973)
  • 1965 March against the Vietnam War (1965)
  • 1967 March on the Pentagon (1967)
  • 1968 Columbia University protests (1968)
  • Milwaukee Fourteen
  • Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam (1969)
  • Nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970 (1970)
  • 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War (1971)
• Veterans Fast for Life (1986)
• Protests against the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
  • March 20, 2010 protest (2010)
• Protests against the Iraq War (2003-2011)
  • 15 February 2003 anti-war protests (2003)
  • 2003 Port of Oakland dock protest (2003)
  • September 24, 2005, anti-war protest (2005)
  • January 27, 2007, anti-war protest (2007)
  • March 17, 2007, anti-war protest (2007)
  • September 15, 2007, anti-war protest (2007)
  • March 19, 2008, anti-war protest (2008)
• 2015 Armenian March for Justice (2015)
• Protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
• Gaza war protests in the United States (2023-Ongoing)
  • National March on Washington: Free Palestine (2023)
  • March for Israel (2023)
  • March on Washington for Gaza (2024)
  • Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell (2024)
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian Tax Day protests (2024)
  • July 2024 protests against Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, D.C. (2024)
  • Israel–Hamas war protest vote movements (2024)
  • List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024
    • 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations
    • 2024 Ohio State University pro-Palestinian campus protests
    • 2024 University of California, Davis pro-Palestinian campus occupation
    • 2024 University of California, Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus occupation
    • 2024 University of Southern California pro-Palestinian campus occupation
    • 2024 University of Texas at Austin pro-Palestinian campus protests
    • 2024 University of Virginia pro-Palestinian campus occupation
    • 2024 University of Washington pro-Palestinian campus occupation

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..