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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be class

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. – James Weldon Johnson

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