There’s just a short entry in Wikipedia for the Silent Parade. Here it is in a block quote:
The Silent Parade (or Silent protest) was a march of between 8,000 and 10,000 African Americans on July 28, 1917, in New York City. The purpose of the parade was to protest lynching and anti-black violence. The parade was precipitated by the East St. Louis Riots in May and July 1917, when between 40 and 250 blacks were killed by white mobs.
The Silent Parade was organized by W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP. They hoped to influence president Woodrow Wilson to carry through on his election promises to African-American voters to implement anti-lynching legislation, and promote black causes. Wilson did not do so, and repudiated his promises, and federal discrimination increased during Wilson's presidency.
It was the first parade of its kind in New York, and the second instance of blacks publicly demonstrating for civil rights.
Would it be too difficult to organize another such peaceful parade, to silently protest at the inauguration of a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic authoritarian who is demonstrably unfit for office?
I think it would be an awesome action to take in Washington, DC, exactly 99 years, 5 months and 23 days after the first Silent Parade. Can you imagine the impact of thousands of protesters, marching silently in the streets behind — or ahead of — the inauguration parade?
I’d ride the dog to DC to participate. I’d help organize. What do you think, Kossacks?
Is this silly? Crazy? Just plain rude? Disrespectful? A pipe dream? Would it never be covered by the media?