Google commemorated the 100th anniversary of the anti-lynching Silent Parade with a doodle on its homepage Friday. Though not as widely known as other marches, the Silent Parade was a significant precursor to the civil rights movement. In a demonstration organized by the NAACP, about 10,000 people gathered in New York City on July 28, 1917, to march in silence down Fifth Avenue to Madison Square.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2017 15:56 UTC