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«5 = question that the vast majority of the people in all the states--in the North, South, Bast and West--want to obey the law, and that the American people as ( a whole demand progress in this field and will not accept the status quo. ‘The problems that remain are massive. The results of racial discrimina~ tion carry on for generation after generation. To face this openly, and to try to meet it squarely, is the challenge of this decade of change. ‘It is one thing to free the franchise for all our citizens. It is another to persuade everyone that they should register and vote, and still another to learn to exercise the francise wisely. It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still an- other to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school. It 4s one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people ill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as whi a+ ann lt aanté oe WS EY I oe It is one thing to free new housing for all citizens regardless of race. It is another to enable mre Negroes to have the means to take advantage of aecent housing. The federal government, the states, each city, and all organizations which have devoted their energies to the cause of racial justice, should recognize clearly that these are the challenges of the future: that meeting i them requires a great outpouring of energies of a very different kind than the instruments of government and the private organizations have used in the ' past. The Emancipation Proclamation had and has great meaning for America. It has brought the American Negro within calling distance at least of all the privileges and protections of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. It has given him the freedom to speak his mind. But for this reason and for others it is clear that the meaning and reach of the Emancipation are by no means confined to the boundaries of the United States. If it was true, as Jefferson said, that the American revolu- tien belonged to all mankind, the same may be sald--in fact must be said--of the the Emancipation, Its message sweeps like a great tide which will enter and wash out every crevice of unjust privilege in the world. It has meaning for the underprivi- leged and struggling masses of our own hemisphere. For millions ef them are Still slaves to hunger, disease, illiteracy, and abject proverty. Must any nation or group of nations which systematically bring the indi- vidual to his knees before the will of the State--which, more often than not, means the whims of a small group of self-centered men. i et a re pee veete