50 Years Ago This Week: Washington’s Biggest Peace Protest

Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by week, as it was reported in the pages of TIME. Catch up on last week’s installment here.

Week 43: Oct. 27, 1967

Thirty-five years after President Herbert Hoover called troops to Washington, D.C.