07/31/1963
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"I should like now to express my deep appreciation to the Commissioners, the Commission staff and the able scholars who assisted them in producing this document."
"In freeing themselves, the Negroes have enlarged the freedoms of all Americans."
"It must be our purpose to continue steady progress until the promise of equal rights for all has been fulfilled."
"The distance still to be traveled one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is at once a reproach and a challenge."