The generally accepted claims of marchers is 500, 000.

State officials had received orders to target Vivian specifically, and so a line of Alabama state troopers waited for the marchers at the Perry County courthouse.

The Jarrow March is fondly remembered by those on the left in British politics as a landmark in the history of labour movement, even though the Labour Party of the day opposed it, and the Trades Union Congress circularised Trades Councils advising them not to help the marchers.

The quadrumvirs leading the Fascist Party, General Emilio De Bono, Italo Balbo ( one of the most famous ras ), Michele Bianchi and Cesare Maria de Vecchi, organized the March while the Duce stayed behind for most of the march, though he allowed pictures to be taken of him marching along with the Fascist marchers.

Many details of the day's events are in dispute, with no agreement even on the number of marchers present that day.

The marchers had no resources other than their own determination, and some good boots supplied by the public.

However, despite there being no French troops in sight, the radicals in Strathaven were keen to march, so Wilson led them towards the city, with the marchers carrying a banner declaring, Scotland Free or a Desert.

The March for Women's Lives was a demonstration for reproductive rights and women's rights, held April 25, 2004 on the National Mall in Washington, D. C .. March organizers estimated that 1. 15 million people participated, declaring it " the largest protest in U. S. history "; others estimated no more than 800, 000 marchers, with the Associated Press and the BBC putting the figure between 500, 000 and 800, 000, comparable to the Million Man March of 1995.

Nesbitt was only seven years old when the shootings happened and was ignorant of its cause ; he believed that there was " no smoke without fire " and that the Catholic marchers must have done something to provoke the British Army.

He thought the march ill-planned and unwise, predicting that they would be " denounced as robbers and rebels and the military would be brought to cut them down or take them prisoners ", and expressed his relief that no Middleton people went as marchers.

Continuing violence by British troops escalated, and eventually the order was given to mobilise the troops in an arrest operation, chasing the tail of the main group of marchers to the edge of the field by Free Derry Corner.

Although the parade permit was delivered only two hours before the start of the march, the marchers encountered little resistance from onlookers.

** Funeral services are held for Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo, who was shot dead by 4 Klansmen as she drove marchers back to Selma at night after the civil rights march.

On November 4, 1839 Frost led a several thousand marchers through South Wales to the Westgate Hotel, Newport, Monmouthshire where there was a confrontation.

The Jarrow March ( or Jarrow Crusade, from the phrase on banners carried by the marchers ), was an October 1936 protest march against unemployment and extreme poverty suffered in North East England during the Great Depression.

When the marchers completed their feat, very little was done for them.

The route the marchers took was in 22 legs with overnight stops, covering a total of as follows:

He was one of the marchers on the American embassy in London in 1968 in a demonstration against the Vietnam war.

One camera was positioned high in the Washington Monument, to give dramatic vistas of the marchers ".

Tom Lehrer mentions her in his song " National Brotherhood Week " in the line " Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek " referring ( wryly ) to her and to Sheriff Jim Clark, of Selma, Alabama, who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965.

270 policemen were injured ( 56 hospitalised ) and over 200 marchers were injured ( 78 hospitalised ), while an attempt was made by rioters to destroy the local police station.

The Jarrow Crusade of 1936 was a key event in the town's history and the original banner carried by the marchers to London can be viewed at Jarrow Town Hall.

This was backed up with demonstrations in Glasgow, one of which was attended by around 80, 000 marchers.

The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43, 000 marchers — 17, 000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups — who gathered in Washington, D. C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

In January 1998 Gascoigne again courted controversy after he played a mock flute ( symbolic of the flute-playing of Orange Order marchers ) during an Old Firm match at Celtic Park, which was televised live on Sky Sports.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers Sergei Witte was implored not to act against the marchers.

In 1997, a successful libel action was brought against him by relatives of Bloody Sunday victims for alleging in one article that the marchers were " Sinn Féin activists operating for the IRA ".

Approximately 900 marchers were arrested and a City Council investigation was held before all charges were dropped.

One early conflict concerned marchers for gay rights, whose permit was revoked by the city.

" He remarked, " After “ No Cuts !” the marchers ’ favourite slogan was " Fairness!

However, following a peace march against the government, as the marchers were dispersing, a grenade was thrown into the crowd, killing Emil Grunzweig, a reserve combat officer and peace activist, and wounding half a dozen others, including the son of the Interior Minister.

The repression of the march was brutal and the marchers began to leave the streets and the CRM devolved into a coordinating body of unions, student, farmer and worker groups.

It made history on March 29, 2008 when former President Bill Clinton joined the marchers to the delight of 30, 000 parade goers that lined the streets of the small coal town.

Over the course of five days and nights, the police made arrests, in addition to using tear gas, Mace, and batons on the marchers.

A " Million Billionaires March " on July 27, 2004, in conjunction with the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, attracted 150 marchers who presented a faux check made out for the amount of " whatever it takes " to the local offices of the Republican Party, as part of an effort to " defeat " Kerry.

The marchers were met at the outskirts of Dungannon by the police and a large group made up mainly by the Ulster Protestant Volunteers.

The nuns of the Catholic school extended their help and hospitality to the marchers, especially to the wounded.

Then we see the young girl to be sacrificed, in her cage, carried by two marchers ; she begs for help & weeps.

The 207 marchers travelled from the town of Jarrow to the Palace of Westminster in London, a distance of almost, to lobby Parliament.

On the evening of 5 October 1936 the Jarrow marchers stopped at the town centre after their first day's walk.

The Jarrow march featured prominently at the Socialist Party's Socialism 2011 weekend event in November 2011, which coincided with the marchers ' arrival in London.

In 1935, hunger marchers on the Jarrow March stayed at the Hall.