{"article":{"id":295569,"heading":"100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down 5th Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter","author":"History Matters idVer:ed9c61cd989fcc714186839","created":"2017-07-27 21:44:47","modified":"2017-07-27 21:44:47","last_modified":"Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:44:47","article":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2017\/07\/26\/100-years-ago-african-americans-marched-down-5th-avenue-declare-black-lives-matter\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2017\/07\/26\/100-years-ago-african-americans-marched-down-5th-avenue-declare-black-lives-matter<\/a> <br><br> 100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down 5th Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter <br><br> by Chad Williams <br>  <br> Wednesday, July 26, 2017 <br>  <br> by The Conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/100-years-ago-african-americans-marched-down-5th-avenue-to-declare-that-black-lives-matter-81427\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/100-years-ago-african-americans-marched-down-5th-avenue-to-declare-that-black-lives-matter-81427<\/a>\n","contact":"","link":"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2017\/07\/26\/100-years-ago-african-americans-marched-down-5th-avenue-declare-black-lives-matter","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"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.\r\n\r\nNew York City, and the nation, had never before witnessed such a remarkable scene.\r\n\r\nThe \u201cSilent Protest Parade,\u201d as it came to be known, was the first mass African-American demonstration of its kind and marked a watershed moment in the history of the civil rights movement. As I have written in my book \u201cTorchbearers of Democracy,\u201d African-Americans during the World War I era challenged racism both abroad and at home. In taking to the streets to dramatize the brutal treatment of black people, the participants of the \u201cSilent Protest Parade\u201d indicted the United States as an unjust nation.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2017\/07\/295569.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}