{"id":481799,"date":"2026-02-21T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481799\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:13:12","slug":"protest-is-central-to-the-united-states-a-kansas-city-author-explores-500-years-of-resistance-kcur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481799\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest is central to the United States. A Kansas City author explores 500 years of resistance | KCUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From abolitionists to suffragists and centuries of anti-war efforts, the United States is arguably a country founded by and built on top of protest.<\/p>\n<p>In her recent book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/770181\/a-protest-history-of-the-united-states-by-gloria-j-browne-marshall\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Protest History of the United States<\/a>,\u201d CUNY professor Gloria J. Browne-Marshall highlights 500 years of resistance movements in the U.S., starting long before independence up to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtesting has been crucial to this country&#8217;s development since before the country was even established, and it continues to be so,\u201d Browne-Marshall told KCUR\u2019s Up To Date. \u201cWe are a country built on protests. The Declaration of Independence is a protest document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Browne-Marshall, a Kansas City native, is <a href=\"https:\/\/rainydaybooks.com\/event\/2026-03-05\/gloria-j-browne-marshall-protest-history-united-states\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">returning for an event in March at Rainy Day Books<\/a>. She believes that protesting is essentially an \u201cinvestment\u201d in the future of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(We have) the rights we have today (because) the power of protest gave us those rights. They were on paper, but to make them a reality, we needed the power of protest. It&#8217;s an investment in the future generations,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason why you and I are able to do what we&#8217;re doing right now is because our ancestors and generations before them fought for these rights. We have to do the same thing for the future. We have to invest in people who will never know our names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, professor and activist, author of &#8220;A Protest History of the United States&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Event: <a href=\"https:\/\/rainydaybooks.com\/event\/2026-03-05\/gloria-j-browne-marshall-protest-history-united-states\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, &#8220;A Protest History of the United States<\/a>,&#8221; 7 p.m., Thursday, March 5 at Rainy Day Books, 2706 W 53rd St, Fairway, Kansas 66205. Tickets are available on the Rainy Day Books website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From abolitionists to suffragists and centuries of anti-war efforts, the United States is arguably a country founded by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-481799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}