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New York City Holds First Black Solidarity Day on Nov. 3, 1969
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2:21Now PlayingFor hundreds of years, Black America’s relationship with Election Day was fraught with mixed emotions, and at times even paralyzing fear.
To highlight the power of the Black vote, on this day in 1969 a committee of leaders designated Nov. 3 as Black Solidarity Day, a national day of unity and awareness among all people of the diaspora in America, with a purpose both symbolic and very tangible.
It called for African Americans to abstain from social, political and economic affairs of the nation and wear all-black in a collective show of unity.
Black Solidarity Day was spearheaded by activist Carlos E. Russell and is annually observed the day before Election Day in November.
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