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Anti Bicentennial Sentiment Surges Across the United States
James T. Wooten reports growing backlash to the Bicentennial celebrations as protests petty and large appear in cities from Philadelphia to Boston. Citizens resist tourism and cheap souvenirs while groups like the Peoples Bicentennial Commission push radical interpretations of revolutionary history.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
Peoples Bicentennial Commission
Ford
Lexington
Concord
Washington
Thomas Jefferson Banks
Abraham Lincoln
National Lampoon
Mount Rushmore
Lincoln
Senate
Boston
New York
Society Hill