15 000 veterans, many unemployed descended on Washington D.C. to demand immediate payment of their bonus. They proclaimed themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force vut the public called them "The Bonus Army" . The veterans made the largest camp across the river from the Capital. Approximately 10 000 people lived in the shelters built from old lumber, packing bpxes, scraped tins and straw.
The statement is incorrect. Martin Luther King Jr was arrested for participating in the Birmingham campaign, among other people. This is when he wrote his famous letter from Birmingham jail. The person who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat was Rosa Parks, and this was in 1955, which is 8 years before the mentioned year.
