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
Knowing Him by Heart brings together African American perspectives on Abraham Lincoln from a remarkable range of writers, historians, activists, educators, and public figures. Associated with the Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, this collection supports exploration of Lincoln’s significance in African American history, literature, politics, and civic thought.
About This Book
Knowing Him by Heart gathers African American perspectives on Abraham Lincoln in a volume associated with the Knox College Lincoln Studies Center.
The collection features an extensive range of contributors, including writers, historians, political figures, educators, activists, and public intellectuals.
Its subject connects Lincoln with African American thought and expression across different periods and viewpoints.
With contributors ranging from Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett to Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Barack Obama, the book offers a broad resource for readers exploring Lincoln’s place in African American history and public discourse.
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