Knowing Him by Heart

African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
Herausgeber: Hord, Fred Lee; Norman, Matthew D

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 938g
• ISBN-13: 9780252044687
• ISBN-10: 0252044681
• Artikelnr.: 63629945

Autorenporträt

Frederick Hord is a professor of Black studies and director of the Department of African Studies at Knox College. He is the editor of I Am Because We Are: A Black Philosophy Reader and Reconstructing Memory: Black Literary Criticism. Matthew D. Norman is an associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Frederick Douglass
Emancipation Day Address at Poughkeepsie
New York
August 2
1858 Frederick Douglass
“The Chicago Nominations
” June
1860 H. Ford Douglas
Address at Framingham
Massachusetts
July 4
1860 Frederick Douglass
“The Inaugural Address
” April
1861 “President Lincoln’s Inaugural
” Editorial in the Weekly Anglo-African
New York
March 16
1861 “The Fatal Step Backward
” Editorial in the Anglo-African
September 21
1861 Jabez P. Campbell
“The President and the Colored People
” October 1
1861
Trenton
New Jersey Robert Hamilton
“The President’s Message
” Editorial in the Anglo-African
December 7
1861 Robert Hamilton
“The Hanging of Gordon for Man Stealing
” Editorial in the Anglo-African
March 1
1862 Henry McNeal Turner on Lincoln’s Proposal for Compensated Emancipation
March 16
1862 “The Emancipation Message
” Editorial in the Weekly Anglo-African
New York
March 22
1862 Daniel Alexander Payne
Account of Meeting with Abraham Lincoln
April 1862 Henry Highland Garnet on Emancipation in Washington
DC
May 12
1862 Philip A. Bell
Editorial on Lincoln’s Revocation of Gen. Hunter’s Emancipation Decree in the Pacific Appeal
San Francisco
California
June 14
1862 Edward M. Thomas to Abraham Lincoln
Washington
DC
August 16
1862 Frederick Douglass
“The President and His Speeches
” September
1862 Resolutions of Newtown
New York Meeting on Lincoln’s Colonization Proposal
August 20
1862 Alfred P. Smith
Letter to President Lincoln in Response to Colonization Proposal
Saddle River
New Jersey
September 5
1862 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Lincoln’s Colonization Proposal
September 27
1862 Philip A. Bell
Editorial on the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the Pacific Appeal
San Francisco
California
September 27
1862 Frederick Douglass
“Emancipation Proclaimed
” October
1862 George B. Vashon
Open Letter to President Lincoln on Colonization
October
1862 Henry McNeal Turner
Response to Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
September 26
1862 Thomas Strother on Lincoln’s Colonization Proposal
October 4
1862 Ezra R. Johnson
“The Liberty Bells are Ringing
” October 4
1862 C. P. S.
“The President on Emancipation
” October 4
1862 Free Black People of Washington
DC
Letter to President Lincoln on Colonization
November 2
1862 Frederick Douglass
“January First 1863” Emancipation Celebration at Beaufort
South Carolina
January 1
1863 Philip A. Bell
“The Year of Jubilee Has Come!” January 3
1863 Robert Hamilton
“The Great Event
” Anglo-African
January 3
1863 Emancipation Celebration at Trenton
New Jersey
January 1
1863 James Smith
Report on Emancipation Celebration at Elmira
New York
January 5
1863 Jeremiah B. Sanderson
Address at Emancipation Jubilee in San Francisco
January 14
1863 Osborne P. Anderson
Remarks on the Emancipation Celebration in Chicago
January 1
1863 H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass
Colliersville
Tennessee
Jan. 8
1863 Thomas Morris Chester
Speech at Cooper Institute
New York
New York
January 20
1863 James H. Hudson
Letter to the Editor of the Pacific Appeal
February 25
1863 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
“The President’s Proclamation
” March 7
1863 John Proctor to Abraham Lincoln
Beaufort
South Carolina
April 18
1863 William Slade to Abraham Lincoln
Washington
DC April 28
1863 Robert Purvis
Address to the American Anti-Slavery Society
New York
May 12
1863 Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln
Buffalo
New York
July 31
1863 Frederick Douglass
“The Commander-in-Chief and His Black Soldiers
” August
1863 Leonard A. Grimes to Abraham Lincoln
Washington
DC
August 21
1863 Jeremiah Asher to Abraham Lincoln
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
September 7
1863 Robert Hamilton
Editorial on Lincoln’s Letter to James C. Conkling in the Anglo-African
New York
September 12
1863 Robert Hamilton
Editorial Endorsing Lincoln for a Second Term as President in the Anglo-African
New York
October 24
1863 African Civilization Society
Address to Abraham Lincoln
Washington
DC
November 5
1863 Frederick Douglass
Address to the American Anti-Slavery Society
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
December 4
1863 Philip A. Bell
Editorial on President Lincoln’s Annual Message in the Pacific Appeal
San Francisco
California
December 12
1863 William Florville to Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Illinois
December 27
1863 Thomas R. Street
Emancipation Day Address
Virginia City
Nevada Territory
January 1
1864 Philip A. Bell
Editorial Endorsing Lincoln for a Second Term in Office in the Pacific Appeal
San Francisco
California
January 9
1864 John H. Morgan et al. to Abraham Lincoln
Pensacola
Florida
January 16
1864 Mattild Burr to Abraham Lincoln
January 18
1864 Amos G. Beman on the First Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
January 23
1864 Richard H. Cain to Abraham Lincoln
Washington
DC
January 27
1864 Jean Baptiste Roudanez and Arnold Bertonneau
Memorial to Abraham Lincoln
March 10
1864 Petition of North Carolina Freedmen to Abraham Lincoln
April or May
1864 Don Carlos Rutter to Abraham Lincoln
St. Helena Island
South Carolina
May 29
1864 George E. Stephens
Letter to the Editor of the Anglo-African
May 26
1864 James W. C. Pennington
Letter to the Editor of the Anglo-African
New York
June 9
1864 “Africano
” Letter to the Editor of the Anglo-African
Point Lookout
Maryland
July 18
1864 Annie Davis to Abraham Lincoln
Belair
Maryland
August 25
1864 Frederick Douglass to Abraham Lincoln
Rochester
New York
August 29
1864 Robert Hamilton
Editorial on the Presidential Election in the Anglo-African
New York
September 24
1864 “Africano
” Letter to Editor of Anglo-African
Point Lookout
Maryland
September 2
1864 S. W. Chase
Remarks to Abraham Lincoln upon Presenting a Bible
September 7
1864 Sojourner Truth
Account of Meeting with Abraham Lincoln
October 29
1864 Robert Hamilton Gives Thanks for Lincoln’s Re-election
November 19
1864 Martin Delany
Account of Meeting with Abraham Lincoln
February 8
1865 George Washington to Abraham Lincoln
Hilton Head
South Carolina
March 19
1865 Thomas Morris Chester
Report on Lincoln’s Visit to Richmond
Virginia
April 4
1865 Isaac J. Hill
Account of Lincoln’s Visit to Richmond
April 4
1865 Alexander H. Newton
Account of Lincoln’s Visit to Richmond
April 4
1865 Jacob Thomas
Sermon Preached in Memory of Abraham Lincoln at AME Zion Church
Troy
New York
April 16
1865 Resolutions Passed on Lincoln’s Assassination in Middletown
Connecticut
April 20
1865 Martin Delany
Proposal for a Monument to Abraham Lincoln
April 20
1865 Robert Hamilton
“Thy Will Be Done” April 22
1865 James W. C. Pennington on Lincoln’s Funeral Procession through New York City
April 27
1865 Angeline R. Demby
Poem in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
April 29
1865 Reaction to Lincoln’s Assassination in Baltimore
April
1865 Henry O. Wagoner
Report on Lincoln’s Funeral Procession in Chicago
May 2
1865 George W. Le Vere
Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln
New Orleans
Louisiana
May 22
1865 Frederick Douglass
Speech at Cooper Institute
New York
June 1
1865 Frederick Douglass
Draft of A Speech on Lincoln
circa December
1865 Address of the Illinois Convention of Colored Men to the American People
Galesburg
Illinois
October 16-18
1866 Elizabeth Keckley
Behind the Scenes
1868 Paul Trevigne
Editorial on Emancipation Day in the New Orleans Tribune
New Orleans
Louisiana
January 1
1869 Thomas N. C. Liverpool
Address on Lincoln’s Birthday
Cincinnati
Ohio
Feb. 12
1873 Frederick Douglass
Address at Dedication of the Freedmen’s Monument
Washington
DC
April 14
1876 H. Cordelia Ray
“Lincoln
” Poem written for Dedication of the Freedmen’s Monument
Washington
DC
April 14
1876 George Washington Williams
A History of the Negro Race in America
1882 Emmanuel K. Love
Emancipation Day Address at Savannah
Georgia
January 2
1888 >
Remarks at Ohio Republican League Club Lincoln Banquet
Columbus
Ohio
February 13
1888 John Mercer Langston
Memorial Day Address at Washington
DC
May 30
1891 Peter H. Clark on Lincoln and Emancipation
May 18
1892 Frederick Douglass
Address at Lincoln Birthday Celebration
Brooklyn
New York
February 13
1893 E. W. S. Hammond
“Lincoln on the Negro
” May 11
1893 Charles W. Anderson
Address on Emancipation Proclamation
Chicago
Illinois
February 12
1895 Booker T. Washington
Address at the Union League Club
Brooklyn
New York
February 12
1896 Harriet Tubman
Statement on Abraham Lincoln
July
1896 Julius F. Taylor
Critique of Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
August 7
1897 Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Emancipation Day Address at Decatur
Illinois
September 22
1899 Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Lincoln
” 1899 Elizabeth Thomas
Reminiscence of Abraham Lincoln
1900 Archibald H. Grimke
“Abraham Lincoln
” March
1900 Elizabeth Keckly on Lincoln
1901 “The Negro’s Natal Day
” February
1904 William A. Sinclair
The Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro
1905 Jesse Max Barber
“Abraham Lincoln and the Negro
” February
1905 Mary Church Terrell
Address on Abraham Lincoln
New York
February 13
1905 T. Thomas Fortune
Address on Lincoln
Montclair
New Jersey
February 16
1906 Reverdy C. Ransom
Address on Abraham Lincoln
circa 1907 W. E. B. Du Bois
Address Delivered at Hull House
Chicago
Illinois
February 12
1907 William Monroe Trotter
“Proposed Mass. Lincoln Centennial
” Editorial in the Guardian on Celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday
Boston
Massachusetts
January 18
1908 Maude K. Griffin
“Lincoln--Man of Many Sides
” April
1908 Hightower T. Kealing
“Lincoln’s Birthday--The Great American Day
” January
1909 Silas X. Floyd
Address at Emancipation Day Celebration in Augusta
Georgia
January 1
1909 George L. Knox
“Celebrating in Memory of Lincoln
” January 2
1909 Selections from The American Missionary
Special Issue on Lincoln
February
1909: Thomas S. Inborden
George W. Henderson
William Pickens
Kelly Miller
Etta M. T. Cottin
Archibald H. Grimke
and John M. Gandy Fred R. Moore
“Lincoln and the Negro
” February
1909 Sylvanie F. Williams
“Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation
” February
1909 Harry C. Smith
“Lincoln in a True Light
” February 6
1909 James H. Magee
Address at Lincoln Centennial Commemoration
Springfield
Illinois
February 12
1909 Booker T. Washington
Address at Republican Club of New York
New York
February 12
1909 James L. Curtis
Address on Centennial of Lincoln’s Birth
February 12
1909 John W. E. Bowen Sr.
Address at Lincoln Centennial Commemoration
Chicago
Illinois
February 12
1909 Cora J. Ball
“On Lincoln’s Centennial
” February 13
1909 Fred R. Moore
“Lincoln Day And The White Folks
” March
1909 Thomas Nelson Baker
“Speech of Lincoln
” March-April
1909 Josephine Silone Yates
“Lincoln the Emancipator
” April
1910 Henry McNeal Turner
“Reminiscences of the Proclamation of Emancipation
” January
1913 James Weldon Johnson
“Father
Father Abraham
” February
1913 William H. Lewis
Speech before the Massachusetts General Assembly
February 12
1913 W. E. B. Du Bois
Address to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s Birthday
Chicago
Illinois
February 12
1913 Booker T. Washington
Address at Rochester
New York
February 12
1913 John H. Murphy Sr.
“A Government for the People
” July 5
1913 Robert R. Wright Sr.
Address at the Emancipation Proclamation Exposition
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
September 14
1913 Theophile T. Allain
Address to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Decatur
Illinois
September 23
1913 Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
“Abraham Lincoln
” 1914 Grand Household of Ruth
Resolution on Equal Suffrage
August
1915 Richard W. Gadsden
Address on Lincoln’s Birthday
Savannah
Georgia
February 12
1918 Edward A. Johnson
Speech on Lincoln’s Birthday in the New York State Assembly
Albany
New York
February 12
1918 Alice Dunbar-Nelson
“Lincoln and Douglass
” 1920 Hubert H. Harrison
“Lincoln and Liberty--Fact Versus Fiction
” March
1921 Carter G. Woodson
The Negro in Our History
1922 Robert R. Moton
Draft for an Address at the Dedication of the Lincoln Memorial
Washington
DC
May
1922 Georgia Douglas Johnson
“To Abraham Lincoln
” 1922 W. E. B. Du Bois
Editorials on Abraham Lincoln in The Crisis
July
1922 and September
1922 National Association of Colored Women
Speeches and a Resolution Commemorating Abraham Lincoln
1923-1924 Langston Hughes
“Lincoln Monument: Washington
” March
1927 Charles Chesnutt
Address to the Harlan Club
Cleveland
Ohio
February 14
1928 Walter White
“If Lincoln Were Here
” Radio Address on Lincoln’s Birthday
February 12
1929 Lamar Perkins
Address in the New York State Assembly
Albany
New York
February 12
1930 Samuel A. Haynes
Editorial in the Philadelphia Tribune on Lincoln and Emancipation Day
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
January 7
1932 William E. Lilly
Set My People Free: A Negro’s Life of Lincoln
1932 Robert L. Vann
“The Patriot and the Partisan
” Speech Delivered in Cleveland
Ohio September 11
1932 Carter G. Woodson
“Abolitionists Worried Lincoln
” November 24
1932 William Lloyd Imes
“A Negro’s Tribute to Lincoln
” Radio Address on Lincoln’s Birthday
February 12
1935
Station WMCA
New York
February 12
1935 Eugene Gordon
Editorial on Lincoln
February
1935 Arthur W. Mitchell
Address in the US House of Representatives
June 1
1936 Grace Evans
Remarks at Emancipation Day Celebration
Connersville
Indiana
September 22
1936 Harry C. Smith
Editorial in the Cleveland Gazette
Cleveland
Ohio
February 20
1937 Selections from WPA Slave Narratives
1936-38 Aaron H. Payne
Address at Lincoln Day Dinner
New York
February 12
1940 Claude McKay
“Lincoln--Apostle of a New America
” February 13
1943 March on Washington Movement
Press Release Regarding the Celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday
February 14
1943 Roscoe Conkling Simmons
Address to a Joint Session of the Illinois General Assembly
February 13
1944 Joel A. Rogers
“Lincoln Wanted to Deport Negroes and Opposed Equal Rights
” February 26
1944 Mary McLeod Bethune
Address on Lincoln’s Birthday
Washington
DC
February 12
1945 John Hope Franklin
From Slavery to Freedom
1947 Ella Baker
Emancipation Day Address
Atlanta
Georgia
January 1
1947 Luther Porter Jackson
“The Views of Abraham Lincoln on Race Question
” February 12
1948 Willard Townsend
“Lincoln Did Not Envision 1952 in His Speech at Gettysburg
” January 19
1952 Ralph J. Bunche
Address at the Lincoln Association of Jersey City
New Jersey
February 12
1954 Mary McLeod Bethune
Editorial on Lincoln’s Birthday in the Chicago Defender
Chicago. Illinois
February 12
1955 Roy Wilkins
Radio Address to Commemorate Lincoln’s Birthday
February 11 or 12
1958 Mordecai W. Johnson
Address on Abraham Lincoln Before the Michigan Legislature
Lansing
Michigan
February 12
1959 Carl J. Murphy 
“Freedom Is Never A Gift
” Editorial in the BaltimoreAfro-American
Baltimore
Maryland
January 23
1960 Jackie Robinson
“Kennedy Not Another Lincoln
” June 9
1962 Martin Luther King Jr.
Draft of an Address at the Park Sheraton Hotel
New York
New York
September 12
1962 Thurgood Marshall
Remarks on Commemoration of the Centennial of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation at the Lincoln Memorial
Washington
DC
September 22
1962 Edith Sampson
Address on Emancipation Proclamation
circa 1962-1963 Benjamin Quarles
Lincoln and the Negro
1962 John Hope Franklin
The Emancipation Proclamation
1963 St. Clair Drake
The Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Lectures
Chicago
Illinois
January-February
1963 Charles H. Wesley
Remarks at Opening of the Emancipation Proclamation Exhibit at the National Archives
Washington
DC
January 4
1963 Daisy Bates
“After 100 Years--Where Do We Stand?” An Address on the Emancipation Proclamation
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
January 6
1963 Malcolm X
Speech at the University of California
October 11
1963 Gwendolyn Brooks
“In the Time of Detachment
in the Time of Cold
1965” John Hope Franklin
“Abraham Lincoln and Civil Rights
” an Address at Gettysburg National Cemetery
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
November 19
1965 Julius Lester
Look Out Whitey
Black Power’s Gon’ Get Your Mama
1968 Lerone Bennett Jr.
“Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?” February
1968 Henry Lee Moon
“Abraham Lincoln: A Man to Remember and Honor
” February
1968 John H. Sengstacke
“A New Lincoln
” Editorial in the Chicago Daily Defender
Chicago
February 12
1968 Norman E. W. Hodges
Breaking the Chains of Bondage
1972 Arvarh Strickland
Remarks at the Abraham Lincoln Symposium
Springfield
Illinois
February 12
1980 Mary Frances Berry
“Lincoln & Civil Rights for Blacks
” Address at the Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet
Springfield
Illinois
February 12
1980 Vincent Harding
There Is a River
1981 Clarence Thomas on Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence
1987 Barbara Jeanne Fields
“Who Freed the Slaves?” 1990 Lerone Bennett Jr.
Forced into Glory
2000 Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Lincoln on Race and Slavery
2009 Barack Obama
“What I See in Lincoln’s Eyes
” July 4
2005 Barack Obama
Remarks at the Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet
Springfield
Illinois
February 12
2009 Index