As Northern Ireland was set up with a protestant-unionist majority, Catholics had no power in politics (due to gerrymandering), little to no employment due to the sectarian West of the Bann policy and for most of them, no homes. This all changed in 1968 when Austin Currie had a sit in a house in Caledon, Co. Tyrone after a house was given to a young single protestant girl instead to two catholic families. When Currie was evicted, it sparked widespread publicity, a civil rights march organised by NICRA (Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association) in which 2,000 people took part in and a second march which was banned as it was going to clash with the Apprentice Boys of Derry's annual march by the walls of Derry near the Catholic neighbourhood of the Bogside where members would throw coins into the Bogside to remind the Catholics of defeat. The Stormont government were allowed to do such due to the Special Powers Act. The civil rights march went ahead however which saw the end to the peaceful demonstrations that NICRA has aimed for up until that point, the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) using batons and water cannons to attack protesters. When an RTÉ cameraman filmed the violence, it was clear that not only was it embarrassing for Britain but when a march by student organization the People's Democracy march was held the following year that saw Bernadette Devlin being beaten up as the RUC watched that the Troubles had begun!