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Photo Essay: Clarifying What Lincoln REALLY Believed about Black Folks on Presidents' Day 2022

Revisionist history has made Abraham Lincoln out to be a champion of Black Americans on the strength of the Emancipation Proclamation. This could not be further from the truth.

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Donney Rose
Feb 21, 2022
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The Emancipation Memorial (Freedman’s Memorial) in Lincoln Park — Washington, D.C.

Today is the annual recognition of Presidents’ Day, an American holiday designated to honor every person who has served in the office of the President of the United States on the third Monday of every February, with a specific emphasis on the birthday of the U.S.’s first …

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