Word: freeborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know Clay, and hold no especial brief for him, but I insist that as a freeborn American citizen he has the right to associate himself with any group, even if they do not believe in the current craze to utilize the federal power to compel race mixing in every area of life. We have come to a pretty pass in this country, where a man who conscientiously believes in separation of the races is to be penalized and denied his rights on account of his beliefs...
...Bois,* one of the founders of the American Negro Academy, set up a narrowly based protest group of Negro elite known as the Niagara Movement (its first meeting was held near Niagara Falls in 1905). Declared Du Bois: "We claim for ourselves every right that belongs to a freeborn American-political, civil and social-and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America with...