Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

How marvelous has been the advancement of your race, 'Up from Slavery,' to quote the title of a book which won universal admiration when the great Booker T. Washington gave it to the world nearly forty years ago.

Context

Greeting on the Anniversary Celebration of the Thirteenth Amendment

10/05/1940

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