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Events on Saturday 28 July 1917 1
1917NAACP Silent ParadeThousands march down Fifth Avenue against lynchingOrganized by the NAACP in response to the East St. Louis riots and ongoing lynchings, roughly 10,000 African Americans marched silently down New York's Fifth Avenue. It is regarded as one of the first major civil rights demonstrations in the United States.