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“The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home.”

Source: Televised address, Jackson, Mississippi, 20 May 1963

Context Answering Mayor Thompson's claim that local unrest was stirred by outsiders, he told Mississippi viewers that Black residents were at home in America.

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Medgar EversUnited States · 1925–1963
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