Labels:book | chat room | daily | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: Five score years ago great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipati ion Procl: ama ation This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames 01 withering injustice. came as joyous daybreak to end the long night 0f i captivity But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro s still not free. One hundred years later the life 0 the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles 01 segregation pue the chains of discrimi- nation. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on lonely island of poverty in the midst of vast ocean 01 material pros perity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in I the corners o American society pud finds himself an exile in his own la ...
