January 06, 1963 (vol. 73, iss. 82) • Page Image 5
…JANUARY 6> 196 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE r JANUARY C. i§SS THE MICHIGAN flATlY PAGE P S S Proclamation Vie Gan Observance Setl Of Negroes 'In Century Racial Problems Still Plague U.S. When Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States on March 4, 1961, nearly four million Negroes were held as slaves in this country, under a system considered by some to have been the Southern plantation economy. Slavery was legal in fifteen...…