(12363) Silent March on Washington, DC, 1989

Participants dressed in early 1900s-era clothing during the NAACP’s Silent March on Washington, DC, August 26, 1989. AFSCME was among the many organizations which supported the march, a protest of Supreme Court decisions that had been made that year. The event was modeled after the NAACP’s 1917 silent march in New York City.