Lincoln: Legacy of the Great Emancipator

Introduction by Edna Green Medford

The meaning of emancipation is the focus of this booklet, which looks at how writers have appraised Lincoln's role in ending slavery and his attitudes toward race, and how his legacy has been used to challenge American society to live up to its ideals.

Contents

• Frederick Douglass, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (1876).
• Booker T. Washington, "Address on Abraham Lincoln Before the Republican Club of New York City" (1909).
• Robert Russa Moton, "Draft of Speech at the Lincoln Memorial" (1922).
• W.E.B. Du Bois, from The Crisis (1922).
• Reinhold Niebuhr, "The Religion of Abraham Lincoln" (1965).

Edna Green Medford is Associate Professor and former director of the Department of History's graduate and undergraduate programs at Howard University. She is the co-author, with Harold Holzer and Frank Williams, of The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (2006).