Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln (The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center)
by Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, George Washington, James Oakes, James Weldon Johnson, Claude Mckay, Clarence Thomas, James Smith, John Hope Franklin, Julius Lester, Robert Hamilton, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Mary Frances Berry, Richard Carwardine, Grace Evans, Kelly Miller, Daisy Bates, Fred Lee Hord, Matthew D. Norman, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas L. Wilson, Michael Burlingame, Edna Greene Medford, Matthew Pinsker, Gerald J Prokopowicz, John R Sellers, Jennifer L Weber, H. Ford Douglas, Thomas Hamilton, Jabez P Campbell, Henry Mcneal Turner, Daniel Alexander Payne, Henry Highland Garnet, Philip A Bell, Edward M Thomas, Alfred P Smith, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, George B Vashon, Thomas Strother, Ezra R Johnson, Cps, Alexander T Augusta, Jeremiah B Sanderson, Osborne P Anderson, Thomas Morris Chester, James H Hudson, John Proctor, Robert Purvis, Hannah Johnson, Leonard A Grimes, Jeremiah Asher, John Willis Menard, African Civilization Society, William Florville, Henry Johnson, Thomas R Street, John H Morgan, Mattild Burr, Amos G Beman, Richard H Cain, Jean Baptiste Roudanez, Arnold Bertonneau, North Carolina Freedmen, Don Carlos Rutter, George E Stephens, James W.C Pennington, "Africano", Annie Davis, S.W. Chase, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany, Isaac J Hill, Alexander H Newton, Jacob Thomas, Angeline R Demby, Henry O Wagoner, George W Le Vere, Elizabeth Keckley, Paul Trevigne, Thomas N.C Liverpool, H Cordelia, George Washington Williams, Emmanuel K Love, William S Scarborough, John Mercer Langston, Peter H Clark, Ews Hammond, Charles W Anderson, Harriet Tubman, Julius F Taylor, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Elizabeth Thomas, Archibald H Grimke, Elizabeth Keckly, William A Sinclair, Jesse Max Barber, Mary Church Terrell, T. Thomas Fortune, Reverdy C Ransom, William Monroe Trotter, Maude K Griffin, Hightower T Kealing, Silas X Floyd, George L Knox, Thomas S Inborden, George W Henderson, William Pickens, Etta M. T. Cottin, John M Gandy, Fred R Moore, Sylvanie F Williams, Harry C Smith, James H Magee, James L Curtis, John W. E. Bowen Sr, Cora J Ball, Thomas Nelson Baker, Josephine Silone Yates, William H Lewis, John H Murphy Sr, Robert R Wright Sr, Theophile T Allain, Oliva Ward Bush-Banks, Richard W Gadsden, Edward A Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Hubert H Harrison, Carter G Woodson, Robert R Moton, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, Walter White, Lamar Perkins, Samuel A Haynes, William E Lilly, Robert L Vann, William Lloyd Imes, Eugene Gordon, Arthur W Mitchell, Aaron H Payne, Roscoe Conkling Simmons, Joel A Rogers, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Ella Baker, Luther Porter Jackson, Willard Townsend, Ralph J Bunche, Roy Wilkins, Mordecai W Johnson, Carl J Murphy, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, Edith Sampson, Benjamin Quarles, St. Clair Drake, Charles H Wesley, Lerone Bennett Jr, Henry Lee Moon, John H Sengstacke, Norman E. W. Hodges, Arvarh E. Strickland, Vincent Harding, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Henry Louis Gates Jr
A compelling anthology of African American writings on Abraham Lincoln, spanning from the Civil War era to modern times and featuring voices from literature, politics, and civil rights.
About This Book
This volume gathers writings from African American voices across generations who have reflected on Abraham Lincoln.
The collection spans from the Civil War era through the twentieth century and into contemporary times.
Contributors include prominent figures in literature, politics, civil rights, and scholarship.
The book highlights diverse perspectives on Lincoln's role in American history and emancipation.
Edited by scholars from the Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, it offers historical and cultural context.
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