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"Silent March"... Red Summer Negro March Against Lynching...
Item # 589100
July 29, 1917
NEW YORK TIMES, July 29, 1919. Page twelve of this issue contains the report "NEGROES IN PROTEST MARCH IN FIFTH AV." with subheads "8,000 Men, Women, and Children Demand That Discrimination and Oppression End"; "Tell Woes On Banners"; and "Parade in Silence While Thousands of Their Race Look On with Never a Cheer". "...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...". This march which was done in protest of lynchings and race riots. Some 15,000 African Americans took part in this march nicknamed "Red Summers". Other news, sports and advertisements of the day are within.
This is complete in 60 pages with small edge tears and lite dampstaining which has caused some pages to stick together of which most which can be carefully separated. Must be handled with care.
Category: The 20th Century