Pop Quiz! What group was the first to protest outside the White House?

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[mrcheerful]

1. The vets of WWI, remember the army was sent in

to wipe out their tent city?

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3. that was in 1930-32 this was in 1917.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Anti-war activists

led by Eugene Debs or someone like that? I believe the Socialists were against going into WWI.

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12. No, they did not have the grapes.

[alphafemale]

5. Hoover-Town

And then when FDR was inaugurated didn't Eleanor take the men sandwiches?

Seems I read that someplace, probably here on DU.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Coffee

Hoover had sent in McArthur, who had used the cavalry to chase the Bonus Marchers out of a park-I'm not sure which-in Washington. They returned after FDR was elected. Eleanor went over, talked to the men, gave them lots of coffee, and sang songs with them.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Women fighting for the vote?

[dorktv]

7. well

:woohoo: You got it!

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Thank you thank you thank you. No applause.

:blush:

Just figured, women thought of it first....:rofl:

[dorktv]

16. Women always do things first. We were even evolved first!

[BrklynLiberal]

21. right on! We are the template...that is why men have nipples.

There is no male version of Parthenogensis is there?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[dorktv]

24. Probably not...unless they tried to become women.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. I would guess the suffragettes

but I'm not sure, not even of the time frame-could have happened at the turn of the last century, or could have happened in the mid eighteen hundreds. Or was it the Temperance (Anti-Saloon League) folks?

[dorktv]

11. You have it.

Women as always were the first to demand their rights at the White House in the Purple gold and white of the movement.

[RagingInMiami]

8. Somebody was right

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/1913/bl_p_191306.htm

[Fridays Child]

10. The Bonus Army?

[handsignals4theblind]

15. -the mosquito's were the first to protest

i guess draining that swamp to create the interesting and some would say 'strangely designed' Washington, including the White house was objected to by the many wild life, in the then swampy area, including the mosquitoes who have returned as blood sucking corporate lobbyists that want to return us to a swamp of a mediocre democracy that gives way to their small and sometimes parasitical interests.

in some ways EMPIRE is like a Fungus it has to keep growing cause it cannot sustain itself.

-********22---ever heard of the Patterson roundups of 1919?

[Fridays Child]

20. So, we may think of Bushco as "Swamp Thing."

Other administrations may well qualify for the title, too--Bush I's, Nixon's, Hoover's, Harding's.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. Very interesting question...and good point about our history

[dorktv]

17. I thought of it because of another Cindy Sheehan quote. She is a lot

like the others who feel that there is no reason to respect power when it is doing wrong.

[Fridays Child]

18. Respect must be earned but just like B*sh's stolen elections...

...any respect he may have garnered is an ill-gotten gain, obtained by subterfuge and lies.

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19. Word to Bush: Fear ain't respect.

[HR_Pufnstuf]

22. Anti-Mason Party - 1832

"These people believed that groups like the Masons had undue influence on the government and ruled at the expense of more ordinary Americans. Interestingly, Andrew Jackson, president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, called for more typical Americans to have a say in government to help him win the presidency. Jackson was a Mason and eventually faced some backlash for belonging to this organization."

"The Anti-Mason Party came into existence to reclaim government from these secret organizations. It marked the first time in United States history that a formally-organized third political party existed."

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=844

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23. nope not them!

[pschoeb]

25. Actaully the Suffragettes were not first

The Whig protest over President Tyler's (a Whig himself, though he was expelled from the party after this) vetoing a bill to re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States, in front of the White house in 1841, is well before this. This was also the most violent protest outside the White House, as it was literally attacked, by throwing stones, and firing guns(mostly in the air) and burning the President in effigy. It's possible there were protests before this as well.