Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

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

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Synopsis: 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. Frederick 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 576 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780252053702
Related ISBNs:: 9780252044687
Publisher:: University of Illinois Press
Date of Addition:: 12/20/22
Copyrighted By:: the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Fred Lee Hord
Edited by:: Matthew D. Norman
Introduction by:: Fred Lee Hord
Introduction by:: Matthew D. Norman