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It all came--this new Age of Miracles--because a few persons in 1909 determined to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday properly by calling for the final emancipation of the American Negro.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “It all came--this new Age of Miracles--because a few persons in 1909 determined to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday properly…”
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Du Bois credits a group of individuals in 1909 for initiating a movement towards the final emancipation of African Americans.
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