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10 Historically Significant Political Protests
By Heather Whipps, LiveScience's History Today Columnist
Iran's capital of Tehran is currently mired in political protests
over its recent and disputed presidential election. Most of the
demonstrators are gathered in the hopes of forcing a vote recount, and
they may well get it, if history is any indication.
Political protests — both violent, peaceful and downright strange —
have a rich past, with varied degrees of success in accomplishing what
they originally set out to do.
The following historically significant political protests include a decisive event in the Civil Rights movement, two history-changing moments that occurred within one year and the medieval defiance of one man:
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Heather Whipps is a freelance writer with an anthropology degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her History Today column appears regularly on LiveScience.