103 years ago today African-Americans marched to declare that black lives matter

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On the afternoon of Saturday, July 28, 1917, nearly 10,000 African-Americans marched down Fifth Avenue, in silence, to protest racial violence and white supremacy in the United States. The “Silent Protest Parade" was the first African-American demonstration of its kind and marked a watershed moment in the history of the civil rights movement.

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