In Gun Control Marches, Students Led but Adults Provided Key Resources
By ALAN BLINDER, JESS BIDGOOD and VIVIAN WANGMARCH 25, 2018
Demonstrators at the March for Our Lives in Los Angeles on Saturday, one of hundreds of events nationwide led by students and activists advocating stricter gun control. Credit Sarah Morris/Getty Images
They were rallies that would not have happened without the fervor of the students: teenage survivors of last month’s massacre in Parkland, Fla., frightened high schoolers in the Midwest, unnerved university students in the Northeast.
But the March for Our Lives demonstrations that unfolded on Saturday, from Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to the streets of Salt Lake City to a small town in north Georgia, ultimately represented twin triumphs: of organic, youthful grass-roots energy, and of sophisticated, experienced organizational muscle.