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1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues his prliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all persons held in slavery in rebel states should be free as of January 1, 1863....'cause "black lives matter"??...maybe; but more certainly to demonstrate a higher purpose to the war on a an idealistic level that would keep England or rising proletariat oriented Europe from siding with the Confederacy militarily or commercially. Truly one of the politico-militant master penstrokes of history imho; the more so, as prior to Gettysburg's turning point, nine months later, the conflict was much in doubt with two years of bloodshed yet to come. 1961: 99 years later, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting discrimination on interstate busses. I suppose that's progress...