Protests, Sit-Ins, and Strikes: Revolutions Through the Years

A Labor Day Special From the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks September 07, 2020   True Stories About the Great Fire This spring Americans rallied to the streets in the country's largest demonstrations in decades. A movement's early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped. R E A D  M O R E »   Voices of a Revolution In April 1968, hundreds of students at Columbia University took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world's attention. Fifty years later, they reflected on what went right and what went wrong. R E A D  M O R E »   Hearts on Fire Following the Kennedy assassination, as Lyndon Johnson rallied his forces behind a historic civil rights bill, Martin Luther King Jr.'s battle for equality gathered strength across the South. In an excerpt from Pillar of Fire, the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize–winning Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch re-created the drama of the struggle and the spirits of its warriors: FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the blueblood firebrand Mary Peabody, and a courageous seamstress, Georgia Reed, who carried its greatest hopes. R E A D  M O R E »   Revolution Number 99 America was full of angry people in September 2011, when a few hundred citizens decided to make their anger count. V.F.'s oral history of Occupy Wall Street shows how the spark was lit in Zuccotti Park as a disparate, passionate mix of activists, celebrities, and accidental protesters changed the national conversation. R E A D  M O R E »   The Girl Who Played With Fire Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the Amazon rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.