Colin Kaepernick Connects to Long History of Time Magazine Protest-Themed Covers

On North American newsstands today.

TimeMach311930CoverThe March 31, 1930 Time cover story “Pinch of Salt” was all about Mohandas Gandhi’s Salt March, a two-month act of peaceful protest being carried out at that time against British India rule. That’s the cover, on the right; Gandhi would go on to be voted Time’s 1930 Man of the Year.

Being on the cover of Time today doesn’t quite resonate the way it did in 1930, or at most other times when the magazine has featured political protests on the cover.

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