CSPAN3 Lectures In History July 13, 2014
He ordered that the slaves should be free from their bondage. Weecade ago and 1963, observed the 100 proclamation of that declaration signing. On the memorial of that fateful year, i was called upon as the last president to speak at Gettysburg Cemetery as the Vice President to speak at Gettysburg Cemetery, where a century before, words had been spoken which all of us have long remembered and on that occasion, i said this. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of mens skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not...