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Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by active-duty soldiers

  • Written by Shannon Bow O'Brien, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by active-duty soldiersThe Bonus Army protesting on the U.S. Capitol steps on Jan. 2,1932.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history.

It involved as many as 30,000 mostly unemployed veterans who converged on Washington, D.C. in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand an early cash...

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