Ronald Reagan actually said...

Though they endured the chains of slavery and segregation, Afro-Americans have fought and died to keep our Nation's flame of liberty burning brightly.

Context

Message on the Observance of National Afro-American (Black) History Month, February 1988

01/31/1988

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