Harry Bradshaw Matthews on leadership: Know yourself, then walk in the other person’s shoes
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Harry Bradshaw Matthews points to a watercolor entitled “Ancestry,” by Xiao Yi Zeng, about Matthews’ research. Next to it is a portrait of Matthews unveiled in the 2017 reception to launch a “Community Heroes in Portraiture” exhibit, organized by artist Janet Wentworth Erickson of SUNY Oneonta.Courtesy Hartwick College/David Lubell
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One hundred sixty years ago on April 12, 1861, Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, starting the Civil War.
Although Black soldiers had fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the law kept Blacks out of the U.S. Army. At first, President Abraham Lincoln worried that allowing Blacks in the Army would cause slave-owning states still in the Union – Missouri, Delaware, Kentucky, and Maryland – to secede. As the war dragged on, Lincoln changed his mind, and tens of thousands of Black men enlisted in the Union Army. Nearly 40,000 of them died.