The Reverend Adam Clayton Powell captures the feeling of many – but not all – African Americans as the threat of war grows real. Thirty-eight people, all but two of them black, are lynched in 1917.
As the British parliament clears the way for women to vote, Alice Paul, head of the National Woman’s Party in the United States, argues that one way to encourage national unity here is to extend suffrage to all American women.
Leon Trotsky, who had arrived in New York in January as an exile, leaves the city on his way back to revolutionary Russia. He is sure that the overthrow of the czar is only the beginning of a new era.
The head of what is now called the Provisional Government, Prince Georgy Lvov, sends a telegram to a meeting at the Manhattan Opera House called to celebrate the Russian revolution.
Benjamin C. Marsh, a city planning pioneer, gets carried away at an anti-war rally that fills Madison Square Garden. The photo shows Marsh, at right, in 1910 just moments after New York Mayor William Gaynor had been shot by a would-be assassin.
