"One can say, without much fear of contradiction, that the last thirty years have seen more dramatic and positive change in the matter of racial eqaulity than all of the 178 preceding years since the Declaration of Independence declared that 'All men are created equal.'"

Enclosed is the final draft of speech with editor's notes and comments, including endnotes and references. Might be a speech Father Hesburgh delivered at the Symposium on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from 1986. Might be both a speech and an article. With the draft a reprint of the speech from The George Washington Law Review, Vol. 54, Numbers 2 and 3, January and March 1986, pp. 244-252.