One use of this annual celebration is to keep the subject of our grievances before the people and government, and to urge both to do their respective parts in the happy solution of the race problem.
He emphasizes the importance of raising awareness about racial grievances to promote change.
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It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
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