<P> In Missouri, marches took place in Kansas City, O'Fallon, Springfield and St. Louis . The St. Louis march was scheduled to begin at 10: 00am at Union Station and culminate at the Gateway Arch . Initial estimates anticipate 10,000 attendees . The Kansas City rally held at Theis (Volker) Park, just south of the Nelson - Atkins Art Gallery, drew 6,000 participants . The KC March was organized by students from area - wide high schools, who set up a facebook page chronicling the event . Twenty - one Kansas & Missouri organizations hosted the event . The rally culminated in a march through the nearby Country Club Plaza upscale shopping district . Organizers partnered with the Poor People's Campaign to promote their Faith Assembly at Community Christian Church--planned by Kansas and Missouri organizers together . </P> <P> In North Dakota, marches took place in Fargo, Bismarck and Minot . </P> <P> In Ohio there was a rally in Cleveland in Public Square . In Cincinnati a rally took place at City Hall, which followed a performance with seventeen flutes made from shotgun barrels, as a memorial to the victims of the Parkland shooting . Another march occurred in Columbus at the Ohio Statehouse, and other rallies took place in Athens and Dayton, each drawing hundreds of protesters . </P> <P> In South Dakota, hundreds attended a march in Sioux Falls . Sister marches were held in Rapid City and Vermillion . </P>

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