About the ways in which experience transforms attitudes. So lincoln grew but so did so many other americans. In my last book i wrote about a lot of soldiers. And one of the important elements of the emancipation proclamation can is when the army becomes an army of liberation, it changes their mind. The enslaved are an abstraction for the vast majority of northerners. So what does it mean when youre marching south and youre able to humanize african americans. The soldiers that medford talked about, very important, 179,000 men serving. So in all of these ways its not just lincoln. Its parts of a society thats trying to move ahead to solve what for them is lets pose it has a problem. The problem of freedom in the age of slavery. Thats a complicated problem. And on one hand vast strides are made. On the other hand 150 years later its a problem that the nation continues to have to address. I think for lincoln its that basic sense of allowing individuals to rise or fall on their own merits a
Mr. President , my name is bob willard. Ive been president of the Abraham Lincoln institute in the past. Im delighted to be at this, the 17th symposium of the Abraham Lincoln institute. Ive attended almost every one. But its a little more challenging now after living in and around washington, my wife and i are now happily e sconced in california. As america said goodbye to first lady nancy reagan, two yule gists, secretary jam baker and her son ron jr. Both claimed that without mrs. Reagan there would have been no president reagan. Im not a fan of the counter fak churl history discussions but i realize that for as long as i remember, i expressed that same view regarding mary lincoln. And it was underscored this morning by sydney blumenthal. Ive heard many presentations on mrs. Lincoln from friends and foes of this controversial first lady. Love her or hate her, theres little doubt in any mind that abraham and mayry loved each other deeply and supported each other for better and worse,
When they got off the bus they were the mercy of this crowd who then proceeded to attack them even further. The deal that had been worked out with local Law Enforcement and the segregationists was evident 15 minutes they would have 15 minutes before Law Enforcement intervened. After about a 15 minute point a local Law Enforcement officer pulled his weapon and fired a shot. That is what stopped the attack. In the meantime the trailways bus arrived an hour later. They dont know until they arrived that the Greyhound Bus was already attacked. The interesting thing about the trailways bus, unlike the Greyhound Bus, several segregationists had gotten on the bus in atlanta. They were riding from atlanta. They had not only harassed the atlanta, the bus from but they had also beaten several of the freedom riders while on the bus. The trailways bus was able to continue on into birmingham for yet another mob formed and was waiting for that bus to arrive. While this was going on there were a group
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