28 July 1917. The New York Times

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

The New York Times

To the beat of muffled drums 8,000 negro men, women and children marched down Fifth Avenue in New York in a parade of "silent protest against acts of discrimination and oppression" inflicted upon them in this country, and in other parts of the world. Without a shout or a cheer they made their cause known through many banners which they carried, calling attention to “Jim Crowism”, segregation, disfranchisement, and the riots of Waco, Memphis, and East St. Louis. Among the banners was one which immediately attracted the notice of the police. It displayed a picture of a negro woman kneeling before President Wilson, and appealing to him to bring democracy to America before carrying it to Europe. The police declared the banner to be objectionable, and the committee in charge of the parade readily withdraw it. Excepting this incident, the parade was in all respects one of the most quiet and orderly demonstrations ever witnessed in Fifth Avenue.

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