Take a look back in time at the origins of the New York Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival.
The New York Easter parade grew from churches simply displaying flowers into a significant cultural event where well-to-do New Yorkers could show off their fashion sense.
By 1880, the parade was a date to look forward to for New York’s upper classes and Easter became an event akin to Christmas. There were other concerns as well. Social critic and poet Edwin Markham highlighted the plight of sweatshop workers who made the event’s artificial flowers.
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