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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

ISBN: 9780252044687

Contributors: Hord, Fred Lee (Editor)
Norman, Matthew D (Editor)
Hord, Fred Lee (Introduction by)
Norman, Matthew D (Introduction by)
Davis, Rodney O (Contribution by)
Wilson, Douglas L (Contribution by)
Burlingame, Michael (Contribution by)
Carwardine, Richard (Contribution by)
Medford, Edna Greene (Contribution by)
Oakes, James (Contribution by)
Pinsker, Matthew (Contribution by)
Prokopowicz, Gerald J (Contribution by)
Sellers, John R (Contribution by)
Weber, Jennifer L (Contribution by)
Douglass, Frederick (Contribution by)
Douglas, H Ford (Contribution by)
Hamilton, Thomas (Contribution by)
Hamilton, Robert (Contribution by)
Campbell, Jabez P (Contribution by)
Turner, Henry McNeal (Contribution by)
Payne, Daniel Alexander (Contribution by)
Garnet, Henry Highland (Contribution by)
Bell, Philip A (Contribution by)
Thomas, Edward M (Contribution by)
Smith, Alfred P (Contribution by)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (Contribution by)
Vashon, George B (Contribution by)
Strother, Thomas (Contribution by)
Johnson, Ezra R (Contribution by)
Cps (Contribution by)
Smith, James (Contribution by)
Augusta, Alexander T (Contribution by)
Sanderson, Jeremiah B (Contribution by)
Anderson, Osborne P (Contribution by)
Chester, Thomas Morris (Contribution by)
Hudson, James H (Contribution by)
Proctor, John (Contribution by)
Purvis, Robert (Contribution by)
Johnson, Hannah (Contribution by)
Grimes, Leonard A (Contribution by)
Asher, Jeremiah (Contribution by)
Menard, John Willis (Contribution by)
African Civilization Society (Contribution by)
Florville, William (Contribution by)
Johnson, Henry (Contribution by)
Street, Thomas R (Contribution by)
Morgan, John H (Contribution by)
Burr, Mattild (Contribution by)
Beman, Amos G (Contribution by)
Cain, Richard H (Contribution by)
Roudanez, Jean Baptiste (Contribution by)
Bertonneau, Arnold (Contribution by)
North Carolina Freedmen (Contribution by)
Rutter, Don Carlos (Contribution by)
Stephens, George E (Contribution by)
Pennington, James W C (Contribution by)
Africano (Contribution by)
Davis, Annie (Contribution by)
Chase, S W (Contribution by)
Truth, Sojourner (Contribution by)
Delany, Martin (Contribution by)
Washington, George (Contribution by)
Hill, Isaac J (Contribution by)
Newton, Alexander H (Contribution by)
Thomas, Jacob (Contribution by)
Demby, Angeline R (Contribution by)
Wagoner, Henry O (Contribution by)
Le Vere, George W (Contribution by)
Keckley, Elizabeth (Contribution by)
Trevigne, Paul (Contribution by)
Liverpool, Thomas N C (Contribution by)
Cordelia, H (Contribution by)
Williams, George Washington (Contribution by)
Love, Emmanuel K (Contribution by)
Scarborough, William S (Contribution by)
Langston, John Mercer (Contribution by)
Clark, Peter H (Contribution by)
Hammond, Ews (Contribution by)
Anderson, Charles W (Contribution by)
Washington, Booker T (Contribution by)
Tubman, Harriet (Contribution by)
Taylor, Julius F (Contribution by)
Wells-Barnett, Ida B (Contribution by)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (Contribution by)
Thomas, Elizabeth (Contribution by)
Grimke, Archibald H (Contribution by)
Keckly, Elizabeth (Contribution by)
Sinclair, William a (Contribution by)
Barber, Jesse Max (Contribution by)
Terrell, Mary Church (Contribution by)
Fortune, T Thomas (Contribution by)
Ransom, Reverdy C (Contribution by)
Du Bois, W E B (Contribution by)
Trotter, William Monroe (Contribution by)
Griffin, Maude K (Contribution by)
Kealing, Hightower T (Contribution by)
Floyd, Silas X (Contribution by)
Knox, George L (Contribution by)
Inborden, Thomas S (Contribution by)
Henderson, George W (Contribution by)
Pickens, William (Contribution by)
Miller, Kelly (Contribution by)
Cottin, Etta M T (Contribution by)
Gandy, John M (Contribution by)
Moore, Fred R (Contribution by)
Williams, Sylvanie F (Contribution by)
Smith, Harry C (Contribution by)
Magee, James H (Contribution by)
Curtis, James L (Contribution by)
Bowen Sr, John W E (Contribution by)
Ball, Cora J (Contribution by)
Baker, Thomas Nelson (Contribution by)
Yates, Josephine Silone (Contribution by)
Johnson, James Weldon (Contribution by)
Lewis, William H (Contribution by)
Murphy Sr, John H (Contribution by)
Wright Sr, Robert R (Contribution by)
Allain, Theophile T (Contribution by)
Bush-Banks, Oliva Ward (Contribution by)
Gadsden, Richard W (Contribution by)
Johnson, Edward A (Contribution by)
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice (Contribution by)
Harrison, Hubert H (Contribution by)
Woodson, Carter G (Contribution by)
Moton, Robert R (Contribution by)
Johnson, Georgia Douglas (Contribution by)
Hughes, Langston (Contribution by)
Chesnutt, Charles (Contribution by)
White, Walter (Contribution by)
Perkins, Lamar (Contribution by)
Haynes, Samuel A (Contribution by)
Lilly, William E (Contribution by)
Vann, Robert L (Contribution by)
Imes, William Lloyd (Contribution by)
Gordon, Eugene (Contribution by)
Mitchell, Arthur W (Contribution by)
Evans, Grace (Contribution by)
Payne, Aaron H (Contribution by)
McKay, Claude (Contribution by)
Simmons, Roscoe Conkling (Contribution by)
Rogers, Joel A (Contribution by)
Bethune, Mary McLeod (Contribution by)
Franklin, John Hope (Contribution by)
Baker, Ella (Contribution by)
Jackson, Luther Porter (Contribution by)
Townsend, Willard (Contribution by)
Bunche, Ralph J (Contribution by)
Wilkins, Roy (Contribution by)
Johnson, Mordecai W (Contribution by)
Murphy, Carl J (Contribution by)
Robinson, Jackie (Contribution by)
King Jr, Martin Luther (Contribution by)
Marshall, Thurgood (Contribution by)
Sampson, Edith (Contribution by)
Quarles, Benjamin (Contribution by)
Drake, St Clair (Contribution by)
Wesley, Charles H (Contribution by)
Bates, Daisy (Contribution by)
Malcolm X (Contribution by)
Brooks, Gwendolyn (Contribution by)
Lester, Julius (Contribution by)
Bennett Jr, Lerone (Contribution by)
Moon, Henry Lee (Contribution by)
Sengstacke, John H (Contribution by)
Hodges, Norman E W (Contribution by)
Strickland, Arvarh E (Contribution by)
Berry, Mary Frances (Contribution by)
Harding, Vincent (Contribution by)
Thomas, Clarence (Contribution by)
Fields, Barbara Jeanne (Contribution by)
Gates Jr, Henry Louis (Contribution by)
Obama, Barack (Contribution by)

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2022

Binding: Hardcover (Readerbound Available)

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Description

"Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Barack Obama, and dozens of others. The selections move from speeches to letters to book excerpts, mapping the changing contours of the bond--emotional and intellectual--between Lincoln and Black Americans over the span of one hundred and fifty years. A comprehensive and valuable reader, Knowing Him by Heart examines Lincoln's still-evolving place in Black American thought"--

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