The Rebellion Before Occupy

Leave a Comment / Side Blog / By Nancy Green

Thomas Dorr marched for universal manhood suffrage in Providence in 1841. His rebellion was put down, but suffrage won. There are lessons here for the Occupiers in Burnside Park.

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