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The evidence is irrefutable; and yet I have been unable to bring the Senate to a vote on that bill; and meanwhile colored physicians in this District are subjected to the indignity of exclusion from the Society, and thus are shut out from opportunities of medical instruction.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner laments the Senate's inaction on a bill that would address racial exclusion in medical societies.

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