... Party to a strong civil rights platform based upon fair housing, desegregation of the armed forces and black voting rights. Shelley vs. Kramer (1948): Outlaws restrictive covenants in Housing Integration of the Military and Major League Baseball (1948) Brown vs. Board of Education (1954): Mandates public school desegregation "with all deliberate speed- based upon the argument that "The United States is trying to ... prove to the people of the world, or every nationality, race and color, that a free democracy is ... whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamati...

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... wedged together as tight as they could cram, in low cells three feet high, the greater part of which, except that immediately under the grated hatchways, was shut out from light or air, and this when the thermometer was incredible high. The slaves were all inclosed under grated ... step to freedom was to borrow the identity papers of a freed slave. "Though I was not a murderer fleeing from justice, I felt perhaps quite as miserable as such a criminal. The train was moving at a very high rate of speed for that epoch of railroad travel, but to my anxious mind it was ... moving far too sl...

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