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Silent Parade

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• ... that in 1917 over 8,000 African Americans protested lynchings by marching down 5th Avenue in New York City in complete silence?

• Source: Du Bois, W. E. B., ed. (September 1917). "The Negro Silent Parade" (PDF). The Crisis. 14 (5): 241-244. ISSN 0011-1422. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 February 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2017.

• Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Sunset_Dunes

Improved to Good Article status by Noleander (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Note that the Earwig copyvio tool will produce two false positives:

1) https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&oldid=1285996040&action=compare&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeinecke.library.yale.edu%2F1917NAACPSilentProtestParade

2) https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&oldid=1285996040&action=compare&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boweryboyshistory.com%2F2017%2F07%2Flistening-silent-parade-1917-forgotten-civil-rights-march.html

Those were reviewed during the GA review, and they do not indicate plagiarism or even close paraphrasing. One is a block quote from a leader of the parade (a primary source). The other is a list of parade leaders' names.

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