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
A compelling anthology of African American writings on Abraham Lincoln, featuring voices from Frederick Douglass to Barack Obama and beyond.
About This Book
This anthology gathers reflections and writings from prominent African American voices across generations.
Contributors include Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, and many others who examine Lincoln's significance.
The collection highlights diverse perspectives on leadership, emancipation, and the ongoing struggle for equality.
Readers gain insight into how Lincoln has been remembered and reinterpreted within African American intellectual traditions.
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