New York City - the grand demonstration on "Liberty Day," October 28th - the military and civic procession passing down lower Broadway, with the naval pageant in the distance

The Statue of Liberty was unveiled on October 28, 1886. Over one million people attended ceremonies and parades in New York City throughout the day.

Suffragists protesting during the opening ceremony objected to the use of a female figure to symbolize liberty when American women did not have the right to vote. African American journalists expressed their ambivalence about the Statue in the wake of Reconstruction.