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Fifty years ago, a black preacher's speech captured the dream of a nation from which racial turmoil had been abolished. "We, Negro-Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims' pride. From every mountain side, let freedom ring!"
"That's exactly what we mean," continued the preacher as he built to a dramatic climax. "From every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and the White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Socialist "Saint": revered as a virtuous American hero, the real...