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Submitted by juices165 on December 4, 2008
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I was building up in me a dream which the entire educational system of the south had been rigged to stifle. I was feeling the very thing that the state of Mississippi had spent millions of dollars to make sure that I would never feel; I was becoming aware of the thing that the Jim Crow laws had been drafted and passed to keep out of my consciousness; I was acting on impulses that southern senators in the nation’s capital had striven to keep out of Negro life; I was beginning to dream the dreams that the state had said were wrong, that the schools had said were taboo. Had I been articulate about my ultimate aspirations no doubt someone would have told me what I was bargaining for;...
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