For more than 400 years each generation of Black people in America has prayed, struggled, and sacrificed, hoping that their children would be a part of that generation in which Blacks in America would receive equality. Each time the dream of equality has attempted to take root in the rich soil of the American dream, it has been strangled by fear and racism. It attempted to take root with the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the civil rights legislation; each time the dream has been deferred. With the erosion of each hope, the echoes of the prophesy of Chancellor Williams (1974: 319) in The Destruction of Black Civilization become louder:
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