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[[image - black & white photograph of two Negro boys standing by the Lincoln memorial statute of Abraham Lincoln. In the background is a drawing of Negro slaves walking in chains]] 

[[caption]] TWO AGES: Slaves dragging their chains through the streets of Washington just before the Civil War (from a contemporary engraving), and  Negro boys of today studying the graven countenance of the Liberator at the Lincoln Memorial.  The Emancipation Proclamation, signed 80 years ago during the stress of another great war, made them free Americans. [[/caption]]