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The Fifth Freedom

Herbert Hoover

1943

Four Freedoms

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941

Of Property

John Locke

1689

“To Fulfill These Rights” Commencement Address at Howard University

Lyndon B. Johnson

1965

“We’re On Our Way”

Fannie Lou Hamer

1964

The Civil Rights Act, 1964

Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy & Strom Thurmond

1964

“Birmingham Manifesto”

F. L. Shuttlesworth & N. H. Smith

1963

To Secure These Rights :The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights

President's Committee on Civil Rights

1947

Along This Way

James Weldon Johnson

1933

Final Report on Negro Subversion

William Howard Loving

1919

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