The black man's everlasting struggle to achieve equality and fairness has progressed into an epic odyssey bound by only the human limits. From torture to civility, the life of a black man over the centuries has undergone dramatic and beneficial changes from which complete equality will not be achieved until the 1990s. With slavery disappearing in 1860s, the black man has to endure an entire century of segregation, lynching, and bigotry before he is seen …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…

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