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

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

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