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Knowing him by heart : African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
- Title
- Knowing him by heart : African Americans on Abraham Lincoln / edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
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- Description
- 537 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- The Knox College Lincoln studies center series
- Alternative Title
- African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
- Subject
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Influence
- African Americans
- African Americans > Attitudes > History
- American literature > African American authors
- Presidents > United States > Biography > Anecdotes
- African Americans > Attitudes
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Presidents
- Relations with African Americans
- American literature
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-184
- ISBN
- 9780252044687
- 0252044681
- 9780252053702 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022016204
- OCLC
- 1317340844
- Title
- Knowing him by heart : African Americans on Abraham Lincoln / edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman.
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Knox College Lincoln studies center series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hord, Fred L., editor.Norman, Matthew D., editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-184