4. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In

5. Forty-six years ago John Lennon and Yoko Ono
announced their honeymoon was to be a week-long
Bed-In for Peace.
Beginning on 25 March 1969, five days after their wedding,
they holed up in the Amsterdam Hilton hotel and invited the
world’s press
into their room to discuss peace.

6. The Couple
Knowing that their wedding would cause a huge stir in the press, John Lennon and Yoko Ono decided to use their honeymoon to help champion world peace. On
march 25, 1969, five days after their wedding, the duo climbed into the bed of room 902 at the Amsterdam Hilton and called the media. BETTMANN / CORBIS

7. Two Cities
Having held their first bed-in in Amsterdam, Ono and Lennon staged a second event in Montreal, where they stayed in rooms 1738-40-02 at the Queen Elizabeth
Hotel. BETTMANN / CORBIS

8. Activists
In between the two bed-ins, Ono and Lennon held their "Bagism" press conference in Vienna Austria. In their view, by living in a bag, a person could not be judged
on the basis of appearance. HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION / CORBIS

9. Expectations
Because of their well known proclivity for appearing in the nude, the press assumed that Ono and Lennon would have sex in front of the cameras. Instead, the two
appeared in pyjamas and talked about world peace. BETTMANN / CORBIS

10. Entwined
Many people, over the years have said that the constant presence of Yoko Ono with John Lennon contributed to the break up of the Beatles. BETTMANN / CORBIS

11. Appointments
During their bed-ins, Ono and Lennon invited the press to their rooms from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for seven days. BETTMANN / CORBIS

12. The Artists
Ono and Lennon's bed-ins, in addition to being protests against violence, have also been called performance art. HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION / CORBIS

13. Derision
Many journalists didn't take Ono and Lennon's bed-ins seriously, saying they were merely publicity stunts. BETTMANN / CORBIS

14. The Song
On June 1, 1969, Ono and Lennon recorded the song "Give Peace A Chance" in their Montreal hotel room, accompanied by a roomful of people that included
Tommy Smothers, Timothy Leary, and members of the Canadian Radha Krishna Temple. The song became popular, reaching no. 14 on the Billboard chart.
BETTMANN / CORBIS

15. Ingrained
Ono and Lennon's bed-ins have become a part of pop culture, leaving an indelible image in the mind of the world. BETTMANN / CORBIS

16. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In
....an act of nonviolent protest in support of peace

18. Top 10 Nonviolent Protests

19. Bed-In for Peace
Beatles legend John Lennon married his second wife Yoko Ono on March 20, 1969. Five days later, in lieu of a traditional honeymoon, the couple holed up in the bed
of the Amsterdam Hilton's presidential suite, welcoming media for a week straight to display their deep opposition to the Vietnam War. They followed up a couple
months later with another bed-in at a Montreal hotel, where Lennon and a group of supporters recorded the song "Give Peace a Chance." BETTMANN / CORBIS

20. Seminal Essay
Henry David Thoreau, the Harvard-educated 19th-century philosopher and poet, remains a major symbol of peaceful resistance because of his 1849 work, "Civil
Disobedience," in which he questions why people would obey a government whose laws they believe to be unjust. On account of his opposition to slavery, Thoreau
refused to pay taxes, an act that briefly landed him in jail in 1846 (a relative bailed him out). BETTMANN / CORBIS

21. Lady in White
As one of the four mounted heralds of the Suffrage Parade on March 3, 1913, lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain led a procession of more than 5,000 marchers down
Washington D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue. The National American Woman Suffrage Association raised more than $14,000 to fund the event that became one of the
most important moments in the struggle to grant women the right to vote — a right that was finally achieved seven years later.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

22. The Salt March
On March 12, 1930, at the age of 61, Mohandas Gandhi left his ashram with a band of 78 handpicked volunteers and headed for the sea. The Mahatma's destination
was the village of Dandi, 241 miles to the south. Once he arrived at the beach, 24 days later, Gandhi proceeded to pick up salt, the production of which was controlled
by the occupying British government. It was a simple gesture that served as the start to India's independence movement.WALTER BOSSHARD / HULTON-DEUTSCH
COLLECTION / CORBIS

23. Flint Sit-In
As a nascent union, the United Auto Workers, formed in 1935, had a lot to fight for. During the Depression, General Motors executives started shifting work loads to
plants with non-union members, crippling the UAW. So in December 1936, workers held a sit-in at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, Michigan. Within two weeks, about
135,000 men were striking in 35 cities across the nation. Although the sit-ins were followed by riots, the images of bands playing on assembly lines and men sleeping
near shuttered machines recall the serene strength behind the movement that solidified one of North America's largest unions.BETTMANN / CORBIS

24. Standing Up by Sitting Down
Even though African Americans constituted some 70% of total bus ridership in Montgomery, Ala., Rosa Parks still had trouble keeping her seat on Dec. 1, 1955. It was
against the law for her to refuse to give up her seat to a white man, and her subsequent arrest incited the Montgomery Bus Boycott. One year later, the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld a lower court's decision that made segregated seating unconstitutional. Parks was known thereafter as the "mother of the civil-rights movement."DON
CRAVENS / TIME LIFE

25. March on Washington
More than 200,000 people gathered in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 to demand equal rights for African Americans. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech and roused a nation to action.AFP / GETTY

26. Fists in the Air
African-American track athletes Tommie Smith (first place) and John Carlos (third place) used their wins in Mexico City's 1968 Olympic Games to show their
opposition to the continued oppression of blacks in the U.S. They stood in black socks to represent black poverty; Carlos wore beads to symbolize black lynchings;
together they raised their black-gloved fists in a cry for black unity. The silver medalist on the podium, Australian Peter Norman, wore an Olympic Project for Human
Rights badge on his tracksuit in solidarity. It cost him a hero's welcome upon his return home. Both Smith and Carlos were removed from the Games; none of the
three men ever recanted their stances.BETTMANN / CORBIS

27. Flowers vs. Guns
From an anti-war demonstration in front of the Pentagon on October 21, 1967, organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, came
images that encapsulate a decade of flower power. Not even the National Guard was a match for mellow hippies looking to push change with nothing more deadly
than a few petals.MARC RIBOUD / MAGNUM

28. The Unknown Rebel
After the death of pro-democracy leader Hu Yaobang in mid-1989, students began gathering in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to mourn his passing. Over the course of
seven weeks, people from all walks of life joined the group to protest for greater freedom. The Chinese government deployed military tanks on June 4 to squelch the
growing demonstration and randomly shot into the crowds, killing more than 200 people. One lone, defiant man walked onto the road and stood directly in front of the
line of tanks, weaving from side to side to block the tanks and even climbing on top of the first tank at one point in an attempt to get inside. The man's identity
remains a mystery. Some say he was killed; others believe him to be in hiding in Taiwan.STUART FRANKLIN / MAGNUM

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