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Silent marchers in New York City protested rising violence nationwide against African-Americans.

Silent marchers in New York City protested rising violence nationwide against African-Americans.

 

Silent marchers in New York City protested rising violence nationwide against African-Americans, 1917.

Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

 
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