Preferred label
Demonstrations
Alternative labels
Marches, Political
Protests
Public demonstrations
Public protest
Sit-ins
Smoke-ins
Broader term
Events
Narrower terms
Civil disobedience
Civil rights demonstrations
Draft protests
Executions in effigy
Flag desecration
Strikes
Related terms
Activists
Civil rights leaders
Meetings
Pickets
Protest movements
Riots
Student movements
Scope note
Public displays, usually by a crowd, either in sympathy with or antagonism toward a cause, event, product, etc. Search also under the subdivision --RIOTS & DEMONSTRATIONS used with corporate bodies and named events (Appendix D).
Editorial note
Used in a note under CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATIONS.
Change note
Formerly TGMI term.