In the Midwest town of Topeka, Kansas, a little girl named Linda Brown had to ride the bus five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks away from her home. ... Poll taxes, white primaries, and discriminatory registration procedures reinforced the belief that voting was "the white mans business." ... Black veterans who fought to make the world safe for democracy were disinclined to accept second-class citizenship at home. ... Kennedy supported civil rights legislature and told his audience that "America would not be fully free until all citizens were fr...

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The fruit of the slave's labor was stolen from the "land of the free" country. ... There are numerous black reparation organizations, which could receive the money and distribute it evenly among African Americans, to incorporate black-owned businesses, home ownership and education for young and old blacks. These reparation organizations could also invest money into smaller black-owned businesses, and other industries that would help further the Black race, and ensure a rapid growth of African American middle class. ...

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