never felt the wounds of economic servitude, political disbarment, and social contumely. We had no conception of the white man’s fear of black power growing in the North. We had underrated the spread and comfortable acceptance of propaganda proclaiming the inherent inferiority and limited educability of the black mind. We had never lived in a district where realty values had suffered from minority infiltration. We saw many successful black physicians, lawyers, clergymen, and office holders, and rejoiced in their mounting number and rapid advancement, but we had never felt the horror of a
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