On this day in 1917, about 10,000 people answered the call of the NAACP for a Negro Silent March Protest Parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City. It was to protest lynching and laws against legal segregation.
On this day in 1967, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission) issued its report on rebellions and uprisings in the U.S. Its main finding was that racism and poverty were at the root of the social unrest: “our country was moving towards two nations, one Black, one White, separate and unequal”.
United States Marines were sent into Haiti by President Woodrow Wilson on this day in 1915 to guard U.S. interests in Haiti and in the region. Ever since, the U.S. has been the major player in Haitian internal affairs.
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