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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The distance still to be traveled one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is at once a…

On the recordFebruary 11, 1963
The distance still to be traveled one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is at once a reproach and a challenge.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks Upon Receiving Civil Rights Commission Report Freedom to the Free

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