Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the tea party, hundreds of jean-clad young people, proclaiming themselves to be the "People's Bicentennial Commission," demonstrated...
...every subway stop and elevator bank, parchment broadsides carried the message: "Citizens of Boston, be prepared to make history." They were summoned to a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party - the opening act of America's bicentennial celebration...
They smashed wooden tea chests and threw them into the harbor...
When the speech in Faneuil Hall ended an hour later, a Peoples' Bicentennial official got up on stage and shouted "to the docks," and the 400 demonstrators began the half-mile march to the Congress St. bridge at Boston Harbor to watch the tea party reenactment...
They watched the City of Boston's official reenactment of the tea party impatiently and booed enthusiastically while Peoples' Bicentennial leaders stationed in a nearby building broadcast excerpts from some of Nixon's old speeches. They were anxious for the political protest to begin...