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Show arbitrary discrimination and Injustice, but la our battle for Negro rights ws must not lose sight of the great progress prog-ress which has been made by the Negro race In America. It la evidence not only of Negro ability, but of steadily Increasing Increas-ing American willingness to give the Negro opportunity and recognition. We Mustn't Overlook Negro's Achievements I General Dwight D. Eisenhower, peaking at the dedication of a Harlem (New York) TMCA building, brought out a point relative to the Negro problem In the United State which I all too often overlooked. He said that no people in the history of mankind "have com so far oa ths road to understanding, citizenship citizen-ship and culture la 85 year a has ths Negro race." Far too much emphvai Is placed In thla country today on the reetriction. and discrimlnatioos and limitsUons imposed im-posed la one way or another upon ths Negro and far too little attention la paid to the great aecomplishmenta of the Negro la America. Despite many handicaps, there la no real limit to the possible achievements of ths individual Negr today. It may te somewhat harder for the Negro to fores his way to the top, but experience prove that the Negro of abOlty caa win the highest recognition m any fitld science, dotation, art, eporta, business or Just a boat any other line of activity. When the achievement of thousand upon thousaada of American Negroes today are contrasted to the Negro' statue a a Slavs 83 years ago, and his status aa a savage 100 or 200 years before thst, the progress of the race is Indeed aston-ashag. aston-ashag. . |