In America’s almost 250-year history, you would be hard-pressed to find a more double-edged period than the ten months and five days between August 28, 1963 and July 2, 1964.Those bookends are moments of shimmering hope: the March on Washington and the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, times when a multiracial democracy really seemed possible. In between was an avalanche of anguish. There was the assassination of President Kennedy, of course, on November 22, 1963. Also the twin horrors of

Four score.Those are the first two words of perhaps the most famous speech in American history: Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863.Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Right in the middle of the Civil War, Lincoln reached back 87 years (“four score” – or 80 – plus 7) to our nation’s founding in 1776 to try to heal the great rupture and

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