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Emancipation Proclamation and said "In giving freedom
to the free, we free ourselves", but this anhivalence
has continued for more than 100 years and a continued
indoctrination of Americans has separated the people
according to the mythically superior qualities of men by
virtue of skin colors, and that separation has continued,
sanctioned by the state, while we evoked as the national
ideal, the democratic concept of equality.
So that although we passed the 13th Amendment
of 1865 and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th
Amendment in 1868 and the 14th Amendment in 1870 and the
Civil Rights Act of 1875, we continued to vacillate
back and forth and the black codes took the place of
slavery and the Ku Klux Klan began to rise and the
Supreme Court in the civil rights cases in 1880 invalidated
the Civil Rights Act.
By 1900 the 23 U. S. Negro Congressmen of the
U. S. Congress and the two Negro United States Senators had
disappeared from the halls of Corgrcs ar.(" racial segre-
gation took the place of slavery.
Now I cone from a heritage of white and colored