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Charles Sumner: “The necessity is manifest every day in the outrages to which the colored race are exposed, not only in travel and at…”

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The necessity is manifest every day in the outrages to which the colored race are exposed, not only in travel and at hotels, but still more in the children of their homes, who are shut out from those schools where they ought to receive practically, as well as by lesson, the great duty of Equality.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner highlights the daily injustices faced by the colored race, particularly in education and public accommodations.

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