The distance still to be traveled one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is at once a reproach and a challenge.
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
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Remarks Upon Receiving Civil Rights Commission Report Freedom to the Free
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The recommendations are likewise acceptable to me, and will be included in my budget recommendations to the Congress in January.
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