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Set in Stone.
At the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 1922, remarks by Robert Moton, the principal of the Tuskegee Institute, received special attention from the "colored" section of the audience. The federal commission responsible for the memorial's construction were loath to have Moton participate at all, let alone emphasize how Lincoln had given "freedom to a race and vindicated the honor of a Nation conceived in liberty." The commissioners preferred to concentrate on Lincoln as the Savior of the Union, rather than as its Great Emancipator.
William Howard Taft, the Chief Justice and former President, who headed the memorial commission, ...
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