Organized by @NAACP, it was the largest demonstration of African Americans in NYC’s history.
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🎥Universal Animated Weekly/Dawson City Collection, Bill Morrison/Dawson City Collection
Children led the way, followed by groups of women in white dresses & men in dark suits. There was no singing or chanting, just the muffled thump of drums.
📷 Underwood & Underwood, 1917. @librarycongress
![Crowd of African American Women marching down a street weari](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeCW5U2X0AAt10z.jpg)
#WomenAtTheCenter: bit.ly/2XF5OUE #OTD
How do you teach this in class? View this resource from Women & the American Story: bit.ly/2X5MsYb
![Newspaper page with a column headline reading "24 Negro](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeCcD-LWkAMlE7L.png)