Black Voters And The 2020 Race For President
Diane talks with Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and an expert in race and electoral politics.
Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
The death of President Lincoln on April 15, 1865, shocked the nation. His assassination at the hands of actor John Wilkes Booth came just days after the Confederate army’s surrender. Most Northerners grieved the loss of the man who ended slavery and saved the Union. African-Americans were especially devastated. But for many Southerners, news of the president’s death was cause for rejoicing. A hundred and fifty years after Lincoln’s death, we take a new look at how ordinary Americans mourned the slain president, and how it shaped race relations in the post-civil war era and today.
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- Martha Hodes Professor of history, New York University
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Excerpted from “Mourning Lincoln” by Martha Hodes. Copyright 2015. Yale University Press. All Rights Reserved.
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