QUEST FOR EQUALITY: THE FAILED PROMISE OF BLACK-BROWN SOLIDARITY Boy's Interest on the one-year anniversary of

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" -- James Baldwin

QUEST FOR EQUALITY: THE FAILED PROMISE OF BLACK-BROWN SOLIDARITY Boy's Interest on the one-year anniversary ofAs the United States championed principles of freedom and equality during World War II, it denied fundamental rights to many non white citizens. In the wake of President Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy with Latin America, African American and Mexican American civil rights leaders sought ways to make that policy of respect and mutual obligations apply at home as well as abroad. They argued that a whites only democracy not only denied