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... opportunity for Negroes in every part of the United States to enter upon an era of prog- ress ; for thirteen days before this date , this is , on December 18th , 1865 , the Thirteenth Amendment , declaring slavery in the United States a ...
... opportunity for Negroes in every part of the United States to enter upon an era of prog- ress ; for thirteen days before this date , this is , on December 18th , 1865 , the Thirteenth Amendment , declaring slavery in the United States a ...
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... the enterprises in which the members of the race are engaged . Meth- ods of enlarging present businesses and opportunities for engaging in new enterprises were also discussed . " To assist in the promotion of thrift it is 14 NEGRO YEAR ...
... the enterprises in which the members of the race are engaged . Meth- ods of enlarging present businesses and opportunities for engaging in new enterprises were also discussed . " To assist in the promotion of thrift it is 14 NEGRO YEAR ...
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... opportunity . This calls for preaching the duty of securing peace and good will between the races . Beyond all else the present situation calls for confession on the part of Christian men and women of a failure to live up to the ...
... opportunity . This calls for preaching the duty of securing peace and good will between the races . Beyond all else the present situation calls for confession on the part of Christian men and women of a failure to live up to the ...
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... opportunity for all . 2. That , while we note with gratification their decreasing frequency , we never- theless record our deep sense of humiliation before God and man that the lynch- ings of Negroes , under whatsoever provocation ...
... opportunity for all . 2. That , while we note with gratification their decreasing frequency , we never- theless record our deep sense of humiliation before God and man that the lynch- ings of Negroes , under whatsoever provocation ...
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... opportunity presented , seeking a solution to this problem and demon- strating it on our Southern soil . " We believe that unrest existing between two different races dwelling side by side under the same economic system and the same ...
... opportunity presented , seeking a solution to this problem and demon- strating it on our Southern soil . " We believe that unrest existing between two different races dwelling side by side under the same economic system and the same ...
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Page 224 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...
Page 224 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 224 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 223 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.
Page 223 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 236 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such State at the Presidential election...
Page 224 - Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 232 - States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States...
Page 21 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Page 224 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...