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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

Debates over the Civil Rights Act of 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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