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W. E. B. Du Bois

Silent Parade

Sunday Jul 29, 1917
57th Street, New York City, New York, U.S.

To publicly demonstrate the black community's outrage over the riots, Du Bois organized the Silent Parade, a march of around 9,000 African Americans down New York City's Fifth Avenue, the first parade of its kind in New York, and the second instance of blacks publicly demonstrating for civil rights.


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