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NAACP Silent Protest Parade (1917)

CTL-E-1550 · Event · parade · 1910s

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Some 10,000 African Americans march silently down Fifth Avenue in New York City on July 28, 1917, to protest lynching and racial violence; James Weldon Johnson helped organize it.

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Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, Chicago, Chicago, 1942
Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, Chicago, Chicago, 1942Photo: Jack Delano, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941
Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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