"Beautifully written. Lucy G. Barber has taken different stories and woven them together so that each builds into a larger narrative about the history of political protest. By looking across a series of marches, Barber explores issues that escape more focused studies, such as the development of marching on Washington as a political strategy, and the changing conception of Washington as a public space. The scope of the research and the author's craft in telling these stories sheds new light on important moments in American ...
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"Beautifully written. Lucy G. Barber has taken different stories and woven them together so that each builds into a larger narrative about the history of political protest. By looking across a series of marches, Barber explores issues that escape more focused studies, such as the development of marching on Washington as a political strategy, and the changing conception of Washington as a public space. The scope of the research and the author's craft in telling these stories sheds new light on important moments in American history."--Mary L. Dudziak, author of "Cold War Civil Rights"
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Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520242157. 353 pages. paperback. keywords: Politics History Washington DC America Protest. FROM THE PUBLISHER-When Jacob Coxey's army marched into Washington, D.C., in 1894, observers didn't know what to make of this concerted effort by citizens to use the capital for national public protest. By 1971, however, when thousands marched to protest the war in Vietnam, what had once been outside the political order had become an American political norm. Lucy G. Barber's lively, erudite history explains just how this tactic achieved its transformation from unacceptable to legitimate. Barber shows how such highly visible events contributed to the development of a broader and more inclusive view of citizenship and transformed the capital from the exclusive domain of politicians and officials into a national stage for Americans to participate directly in national politics. inventory #35053.
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The use of Washington DC as a public sphere for protests, rather than ceremonies, got it's start with Coxey's Army in 1894. The group wanted to end the misery of unemployed workers by building roads and new community centers throughout the US. They, of course, were vilified as socialists and prevented from using the Capital Grounds. Among the other marches covered by this work are those of the Suffragists, the Bonus Army, the Civil Rights Marches, and the Anti-war marches. As the author goes through the various marches, she shows the progressive acceptance of the use of marches for political purposes.