Labels:book | bulletin board | chat room | daily | reckoner | sky OCR: Five score years ago, a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Procla ma tion. This momentous decree came as great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as joyous daybreak to end the long night ot captivity But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacl les of segregation and 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 prosperity One hundred years later, the Negro is still langu ishing in the corners of American soci iety and finds himself an exile in his own ...
