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It is idle to discuss schemes to separate these races except by voluntary and individual movement, but they will live and increase, generation after generation, the common occupants of the new south.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “It is idle to discuss schemes to separate these races except by voluntary and individual movement, but they will live…”
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Sherman discusses the importance of voluntary integration between races in the post-war South.
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