Silent Parade Shook Fifth Avenue

In 1917, more than 10,000 African Americans marched in silence down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest lynching and anti-Black violence. The NAACP organized the Silent Parade after deadly racial violence, including the East St. Louis riots. The march became one of the first major mass civil rights protests in U.S. history, though not usually receiving the same level of attention as the later Civil Rights protests.

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