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On This Day In History
1862: Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

Quote Of The Day
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.


"But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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