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to have court protection be free, without barrier or denial.

Give, Mr. President and all our Governors, the same
encouragement for volunteering or enlisting to white, to brown,
to yellow, to black, Americans all, by vouchsafing the same free
chance to enlist, to rise by merit, and on return home, the same
right to civil service, and to civil rights without bar or
segregation.

With our great Republic entering a world war for huumanity,
remove the need for the Colored mother andfather to suffer under
the feeling that their son will return to find the color line
drawn at factory, eating place, playhouse, and ballot-box; make it
not necessary for the Colored soldier in the trenches to suffer
with the thought that as he bares his breast to the bullet his
sister is segregated in the government service at Washington and his
mother in danger of the lynching mob.

Recognizing the world honored ethics of national defense, as
England promised home-rule to the Irish and Russia abolition of
restriction and the ghetto to her Jews, the United States of America
is now called upon to grant the abolition of federal segregation and
of disfranchisement to her Colored citizens.

As this nation goes forth to fight the "natural foe of
liberty", let Americans highly resolve that all shall have liberty
within her borders. As she fights for democracy as against autocracy
let there be a democracy at home 100%, not 80% strong. As our Presi-
dent declares we "fight for the right of those who submit to authority
to have a voice in their own government", let us all resolve that
when the war is over such shall be the privilege of 100% of
our people, not 80%.

Now is the time for all in authority to declare for the aboliti-

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