# List of protests in the United States

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
### 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

* 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

### 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* Civil rights movement (1865–1896)
* Civil rights movement (1896–1954)
** Anti-lynching movement (1890s-1930s)
*** Silent Parade (1917)
** New Negro movement (1918-1930s)
* Chicano Movement (1940s-1970s)
** East L.A. walkouts (1968)
** Chicano Moratorium
** Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal protests (2020)
* 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)
** March Against Fear (1966)
** 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

* 1902 kosher meat boycott
* 1933 Madison Square Garden protest
* Rabbis' march (1943)
* 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 protests (2009-2010)
* Taxpayer March on Washington (2009)
* Tax March (2017)

### War

* 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

* 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