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Visions of Freedom: Democracy

A series of colored drawings depicting key people and moments in advocating and fighting for civil rights.
I am bound to obey my country and her laws because I am by them protected. When they cease to protect me I can rightly cease to obey them.
We ask suffrage not as a favor, not as a privilege,
but as a right based on the ground that we are human beings,
and as such, entitled to all human rights.

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Portrait of woman that reads "Portrait of Mrs. Frances Anne Rollin Whipper."
[This bill] does not seek to confer new rights . . . but simply to prevent and forbid inequality and discrimination on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. . . . [It] will determine the civil status, not only of the Negro, but of any other class of citizens who may feel themselves discriminated against.