Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
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., 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, 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, William Florville, Henry Johnson, Thomas R Street, John H Morgan, Mattild Burr, Amos G Beman, Richard H Cain, Jean Baptiste Roudanez, Arnold Bertonneau, Don Carlos Rutter, George E Stephens, James W.C Pennington, 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, Alexander T Cps, Henry African Civilization Society, George E North Carolina Freedmen, S.W. "Africano", Julius Malcolm X
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln brings together a remarkably broad roster of African American writers, leaders, scholars, and public figures. Their collective presence offers readers an expansive way to consider Lincoln through the perspectives of African American history, literature, politics, education, and public memory.
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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln gathers an extensive range of African American voices in relation to Abraham Lincoln.
The contributors include writers, historians, political figures, educators, activists, and public thinkers from different periods and backgrounds.
With names such as Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and many others, the book presents a broad field of perspectives for readers interested in Lincoln and African American history.
This volume offers a substantial resource for exploring how African Americans have understood, discussed, and remembered Abraham Lincoln.
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