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Benita Roth, Deborah Gray White. Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March., The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 1, February 2018, Pages 267–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/123.1.267
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There is no social-movement tactic so fraught as that of the large-scale march, especially if it is set in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. In Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March, Deborah Gray White traces the experiences of Americans who participated in large-scale marches in the 1990s, chiefly on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. She looks at the 1997 Stand in the Gap gathering of the Promise Keepers, an evangelical group focused on providing an experience of brotherhood for American men; the 1995 Million Man March, organized in large part by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam but drawing black men from many other faith communities; the 1997 Million Woman March, which drew thousands of black women to Philadelphia for “repentance, restoration, and resurrection” (25); the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation and the 2000 Millennium March (the third and fourth in a series of marches organized by the LGBT community asking for greater civil rights); and the Million Mom March of 2000 of mothers seeking stronger gun control.
