Author: Publisher:
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Summary of Local Planning Documents in Illinois
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: The Black Man's President
Author: Michael BurlingamePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country.” This narrative history of Lincoln’s personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little-noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights as men.” To justify that description, Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and utterances, like the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but also to the president’s own personal experiences with Black people. Referring to one of his White House visits, Douglass said: "In daring to invite a Negro to an audience at the White House, Mr. Lincoln was saying to the country: I am President of the black people as well as the white, and I mean to respect their rights and feelings as men and as citizens.” But Lincoln’s description as “emphatically the black man’s president” rests on more than his relationship with Douglass or on his official words and deeds. Lincoln interacted with many other African Americans during his presidency His unfailing cordiality to them, his willingness to meet with them in the White House, to honor their requests, to invite them to consult on public policy, to treat them with respect whether they were kitchen servants or leaders of the Black community, to invite them to attend receptions, to sing and pray with them in their neighborhoods—all those manifestations of an egalitarian spirit fully justified the tributes paid to him by Frederick Douglass and other African Americans like Sojourner Truth, who said: "I never was treated by any one with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln.” Historian David S. Reynolds observed recently that only by examining Lincoln’s “personal interchange with Black people do we see the complete falsity of the charges of innate racism that some have leveled against him over the years.”
Federal Register
Author: U.S. Government Research & Development Reports
Author: Press Summary - Illinois Information Service
Author: Illinois Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
U. S. Government Research and Development Reports
Author: Sangamon County Zoning Ordinance
Author: Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission (Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
EPA Strategic Plan
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher: Agency
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description