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“
We have waited one hundred years for these rights.
In my view, now is the time for Negroes to ask for all
the rights which are theirs.
– Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Chairman of the ”
1957 NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund to a
Chicago audience during the drive tour, 1957
Jackie Robinson speaking at the NAACP
50th Anniversary Conference, Pittsburgh, PA,
October 1959.
Courtesy of Charles “Teenie” Harris, Carnegie
Museum of Art
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