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Nation: Ambush in the Night

Vernon Jordan is shot down in Fort Wayne. The biggest question: Why?

We cannot ignore the awful pressures faced by black people today. We cannot pretend that what happened in Miami was a purely local event flowing from purely local conditions. The pressures that built to an explosion in Miami are present everywhere today ... Yes, we know our days of sacrifice and struggle are not over. Our struggle is for America's soul... Our faith has been sorely tried. It has been burned in the furnace of racial hatreds. But always, black people have revived their faith in America ...

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