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Equality and Race Relations in the South, Moton Speech
Excerpts from a Moton address discuss black progress since emancipation, urging white readers to recognize civic justice over social equality. The piece emphasizes mutual reliance between races, condemns criminal acts by a few, and advocates equal educational facilities, fair roads, and railroad access as rights, not social status. The speaker stresses reconciliation, shared goals for the South, and gratitude for white allies in Georgia Alabama and Tuskegee.
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