New York City has always been filled, will always be filled , with organizations advocating changes that they see as reforms, to what they see as an ongoing malaise.
But in the 1920s and 1930s , some of these organizations took to putting on colourful costumes and uniforms and engaging in deliberately provocative street marches , as a leading part of their efforts to effect reform.
These colourful street efforts were most successful if they ended in violent clashes between rival reform groups , where the strongest fists won the field.
Because the resulting media publicity benefitted both winners and losers in the fist fight.
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