free

//** Free –adjective **//
 * < **1.** ||< enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: //a land of free people.// ||

(dictionary.com) I chose the word free to write about because even though people of color were by law free, I still don't think people of color were totally free because they were not free of the hate that many people still held against them. In 1963 they still didn't have all the rights a white person had.
 * < **2.** ||< pertaining to or reserved for those who enjoy personal liberty: //They were thankful to be living on free soil.// ||

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