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Boston demonstrations over the years

The Boston Tea Party is Boston's most famous -- and arguably the nation's signature -- demonstration. With Occupy Boston again stirring civil disobedience, we look back at other mass protests in the city. At left, 'Casting tea overboard in Boston Harbor' from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1851.
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Kim Lyons, Boston.com Staff
The Boston Tea Party is Boston's most famous -- and arguably the nation's signature -- demonstration. With Occupy Boston again stirring civil disobedience, we look back at other mass protests in the city.

At left, "Casting tea overboard in Boston Harbor" from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1851.