Edward Underwood on Abraham Lincoln

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This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

Addressing the African American community in Frankfort in 1909, Dr. Edward E. Underwood, a member of the Negro Peoples' Centenary Committee, spoke of Lincoln's significance in the broad sweep of history. Taken from "The Frankfort News," February 13, 1909. Audio clip courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

By Talbott
The summer before Abraham Lincoln was elected president, he wrote a response to Samuel Haycraft, who had asked Lincoln to return to Kentucky to visit his boyhood home. Although few Kentuckians…