The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara Even one hundred and fifty

Even one hundred and fifty years later

the JFK assassination

Their emotional

citizens were usually unscathed if they were able to stay out of harm’s way

forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America

The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara Even one hundred and fiftyby Michael Burlingame 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 Lincolns 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