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Article: Parade was a glorious exception to relentless negative imagery about African Americans. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 15, 1994
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Led by a man in a shining black top hat, about 800 African American men, dressed elegantly, most in tuxedos, stepped smartly to a moderate cadence down Broad Street last Friday.
They marched three abreast, in a line that stretched for 2{ blocks, in the first African American Veterans Day Parade _ and they represented just one of dozens of units in the two-hour parade.
They were serious and purposeful. You could see the pride in their faces. They were young and old. Some smiled at the spectators who watched their procession and acknowledged them with applause.
They marched down a route that would lead them to 20th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway for a ceremony ...