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A Walk to Moscow. Length: 5,500 miles (8,900 km) Date: March 1981 – October 1983. Miles walked per month: 275 miles (443 km) Details: This peace walk started from Bangor, Washington to Boston. Members continued in the United Kingdom, walking to the border of the former East Germany.
George Meegan. George Meegan (2 December 1952 – 10 January 2024) was a British adventurer and alternative educator best known for his unbroken walk of the Western Hemisphere from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. This journey was 19,019 miles (30,608 km) on foot, completed in 2,426 days [1 ...
Darlene Nichols, also known by the names Kamook, Ka-Mook, Kamook Nichols and Ka-Mook Nichols, is the name of a former AIM member and Native American protester. She is best known for her role in the American Indian Movement for organizing (and participating in) The Longest Walk, and for serving as a key material witness [10] in the trials of Arlo Looking Cloud, Richard Marshall, and John Graham ...
The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo (Spanish: larga caminata del navajo), was the deportation and ethnic cleansing [3][4] of the Navajo people by the United States federal government and the United States army. Navajos were forced to walk from their land in western New Mexico Territory (modern-day Arizona ...
Darla Banks started the walk on May 1 at her father's home in Leech Lake, Minnesota. She's eager to finish it in Washington, D.C.
Thirty years later, AIM led the Longest Walk 2, which covered 8,200 miles (13,200 km) starting from the San Francisco Bay area and arriving in Washington, D.C. in July 2008. The Longest Walk 2 had representatives from more than 100 American Indian nations, and other indigenous participants, such as Maori. It also had non-indigenous supporters.
This is a list of notable long-distance trails in the United States, with a minimum length of 30 miles (48 km). Linear path traveling through the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains. Loop trail in Moshannon State Forest. Passes through Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky (Southern Route), Indiana, Illinois, Iowa (Northern Route ...
Within months, he was shoved into a tiny punishment cell. His only walk was for half an hour “in a circle over and over again” in an enclosed courtyard with bars overhead.