When marchers arrived, they discovered that most of the Cumming residents had already left town for the day, and some had boarded up their windows because they feared violence.

Mosley planned to send thousands of marchers dressed in uniforms styled on those of Blackshirts through the East End, which then had a large Jewish population.

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

The marchers were supported by a bus which carried cooking equipment and ground sheets for when the march had to stop outside.

* April 2009: About 150 activists marched from Montpelier's City Hall to the State House to urge lawmakers to back development of clean energy sources such as wind power and solar power ; the marchers had gathered 12, 000 signatures in support of closing Vermont Yankee.

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.

Carmichael was held for several hours and then rejoined the marchers at a local park where they had set up camp and were beginning a night-time rally.

The newspapers later reported that 700 men had been concentrated at the Central Statiion, who now descended upon the marchers ....

but Roosevelt handled this protest much more carefully than Hoover had: His administration set up an encampment for the protesters ( albeit too far from the Capitol to make their protest effective ), prohibited loitering in the District of Columbia ( forcing the marchers to stay outside the city ), sent Eleanor Roosevelt to deliver food and medicine to the marchers and hear their grievances, and encouraged the ex-servicemen to seek work with the Civilian Conservation Corps ( which many did ).

London hosted the event in 2006, organizing a two-week festival culminating in a parade on the final day ( 1 July ) in which marchers were invited to walk down Oxford Street, one of the city's busiest shopping streets, the first time they had been legally allowed to do so in the parade's history.

At trial, the defendants claimed that the marchers had refused to obey an order to disperse and were charging toward the sheriff and his deputies.

It is widely believed that the confrontation could have been avoided if the news had reached the marchers earlier.

That morning thousands of people walked the path that the civil rights marchers had taken on Bloody Sunday before 27 of them were shot.

The 3. 5 hour procession had 51, 329 marchers, including 2, 134 organizations and 52 bands.

The banners the marchers carried demanded the release of IRA members who had been arrested by the British police.

Along the way, a few Chinese onlookers jeered or threw items like bottles at the Malay marchers who had been shouting " God is great " and other Islamic slogans loudly.

It has also been claimed by descendants of the survivors that the term " Trail of Tears " referred to the tears of those who witnessed the suffering of the marchers, and that the Native Americans themselves marched in silence.

Due to improved policing, dialog between marchers and residents, and the Northern Ireland peace process, recent parades have been more peaceful.

At least two-thirds of the 20, 000 civil rights marchers were white, according to eyewitnesses.

Observers estimated that 75 – 80 % of the marchers were black and the rest were white and non-black minorities.

In July and August, large mobs of white segregationists mobilized by the KKK violently attacked nonviolent marchers and news reporters with rocks, bottles, baseball bats and steel pipes.

Suffragist and lawyer Inez Milholland led the parade, clad in a white cape astride a white horse ; behind her stretched a long line with nine bands, four mounted brigades, three heralds, about 24 floats, and more than 5, 000 marchers.

The white mob outside brutally attacked the marchers.

" Additional SlutWalks sprung up rapidly in cities all over the world, with marchers reclaiming the word " slut " to make the point that if victimized women are sluts, then all women must be, since anyone can be victimized regardless of what they are wearing.

" Additional SlutWalks sprung up rapidly in cities all over the world, with marchers reclaiming the word " slut " to make the point that if victimized women are sluts, then all women must be, since anyone can be victimized regardless of what they are wearing.

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.

In October 1934, at the beginning of the Long March, Xiang stayed behind to fight a rearguard action that would allow the marchers to get out of the ring of surrounding Nationalist forces.

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

Thousands of armed marchers passed through the town and surrounding region on their way to and from the fighting at Blair Mountain, which is located up Spruce Fork from Madison.

As they pass through the Faubourg Marigny and French Quarter, additional costumed marchers join the parade at various coffee-shops and bars along the route.

During Mardi Gras the Society of Saint Anne marching krewe starts their procession on Mardi Gras morning in Bywater and gathers marchers as it travels through the French Quarter and ends at Canal Street.

For her funeral the PCCh and her family organized a march through the center of Santiago, where there were between 500, 000 and 1 million marchers.

When Ronnie Kasrils led a group in trying to break through the Ciskei Defence Force lines to enter Bisho stadium, the soldiers opened fire on marchers, killing 28 people and injuring over 200.

The New York Times reported ( on the front page ) that the marchers took up the entire street for about 15 city blocks.

Much like the day before, loudspeaker cars and bicycles provided communications between the different columns of marchers from the outer districts as, all morning, they converged on the city center.

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.

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

The date chosen was 5 October 1968, an adhoc committee was formed ( although in reality most of the organizing was done by McCann and Melaugh ) and the route was to take the marchers inside the city walls, where nationalists were traditionally not permitted to march.

The army erected barricades around the Free Derry area to prevent marchers from reaching the city centre.

In 2006, during the Oaxaca protests that saw thousands occupy their city following the police repression of teachers ' strikes, 5000 women marchers banged pots and pans with spoons and meat tenderizers.

The course, it starts in Dill's front yard, and stretches over about one city block, which is considerably shorter than the line of marchers and vehicles in it.