Remembering the massive march of April 20, 1990

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The only reported hassle came about after the demonstration, when a choice beat up a motorist and another man who tried to help him in downtown Brooklyn. The police reported the motorist had apparently argued with special people inside the crowd. By early afternoon, the marchers reached Federal Plaza at Broadway between Worth and Chambers Streets, with a crowd that the police estimated at 50,000 and that rally organizers reported became nearly 80,000.

When news came to us on campus that the Haitians are organizing a march to protest against the FDAs policy closer to the Haitians, the Haitians on campus enthusiastically organized load of buses to wait the rally. Haitians all over the area have joined in to make April 20, 1990 the greatest Haitian gathering on a foreign soil. It became believed that as many as 80,000 Haitians have crossed the Brooklyn Bridge and only one isolated incident became registered by the NYPD.

The protesters - college pupils, factory workers and families with picnic baskets and umbrellas to offer protection to them from the sun - massed inside the morning at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn and then crossed into Manhattan. The bridge became closed to visitors, hopelessly clogging reduce Manhattan for so much of the day.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators swarmed across the Brooklyn Bridge into reduce Manhattan yesterday to protest a Federal wellbeing policy on blood donations that they reported unfairly stigmatized Haitians and Africans.

F.D.A. Policy To Limit Blood Is Protested By DONATELLA LORCH Published: April 21, 1990

Waving flags and chanting, the marchers, whose numbers surprised the Police Department, were intent on their mission still also festive and orderly.

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Remembering the tremendous march of April 20, 1990

To relive the moment and pride of the Haitians, beneath is an article from the New York Times dated April 21, 1990 about that stunning day of Haitians on foreign soil.

When it became time to leave, it became as if the rally has just begun. The NYPD became helpless, hopeless and unable to manipulate the Haitians. To exhibit respect to the then Mayor, David Dinkins, only he could have handled the situation. The Haitians, as a replacement of following the order of the NYPD, started calling on the Mayor to come and sign in for them inside the crowd. I have in mind vividly when some marchers took the Mayor on major of their necks, literally like a kid, and started chanting Dinkins, Dinkins, Dinkins. Only the Mayor could have stopped us and so he spoke to the crowd, thanking them and asked that we please go homestead as he supported our goal.

For those of us who are too young to have in mind the match of April 20, 1990, I am pleased to share with you another major Haitian splendid fortune. Seventeen years ago as we speak, Haitians have over again shown the area that united we are tough. Fresh out of High School in January 1990, as I became attending Buffalo state College, I became turned away as I attempted to voluntarily donate blood at a Blood Bank Center on campus. Reason for not accepting my blood became pointed out to me in a leaflet, blood from Haitians and sub-Saharan Africans are assuredly not to be accepted to paraphrase it. Needless to mention that I became ashamed, the blood that I became about to donate has dried up in my veins for I became ready to fight the scheme of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to use Haitians as scapegoat for the AIDS Virus.