Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, January 21st, 2017, between three and five million people participate in marches around the U.S.

The largest single-day protests in U.S. history up until that point,

they were later surpassed by the George Floyd protests in 2020. And by the way, I'm a little

skeptical sometimes when I hear these numbers and these rankings and how you can calculate

those things. Maybe that's another episode. But anyway, January 2017, massive protests.

I think, folks, you can probably remember. This is just after the

inauguration, the first inauguration of Donald Trump, and it is the so-called women's march and a big

early moment of resistance to the incoming Trump administration. It was only eight years ago,

but it feels like a long, long time ago.

Things felt very different back then.

And given how much news there has been over the last eight years, we've kind of forgotten a lot of what went down on that day and around those moments.

So let's revisit another cold post-Trump inauguration day and talk about the women's march and why there aren't three to five million people in the street this time around.

Here, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley.

Hello there.

Hello, Jody.

Hey there.

We should say we are recording this a couple days before the inauguration.

So, you know, we're not going to mention anything that happened this time around for Trump's inauguration. But let's go to 2017. Kelly, you were, you were around? You were watching stuff? What are your memories?

Way more recent to me. It feels more recent. It feels, it does not feel that long ago. And maybe that's because this semester, I'm teaching Black Women's History and we do a whole, we spend a whole week talking about this particular moment.

So remind us how this all kind of came to a head on that post-inauguration day.

Well, yeah.

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