Speaking during the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation - TopicsExpress



          

Speaking during the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation — an anniversary he had assiduously avoided commemorating, earlier that year — Kennedy eloquently linked the fate of African-American citizenship to the larger question of national identity and freedom. America, “for all its hopes and all its boasts,” observed Kennedy, “will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:06:05 +0000

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