Kiwanis Club of Greensboro, NC, 1920s, Pryor Emerson Humphrey Photograph Collection, PhC.180, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; Wikimedia Commons.
The ideal of citizenship portrays our highest political possibility, but this ideal is often invoked as if it were already realized.
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