Lincoln's Birthday

[Alex]

It is a valid point but that "minority view" gets air time every February. W.E.B. Du Bois quite famously started the tradition in 1922 (though he did it to raise the point that he loved Lincoln despite his contradictions rather than using the contradictions as a reason to hate him).

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

(though he did it to raise the point that he loved Lincoln despite his contradictions rather than using the contradictions as a reason to hate him).

A sentiment first expressed by Frederick Dogulas at the dedication of the Freedmen's Monument in 1876.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

A sentiment first expressed by Frederick Dogulas at the dedication of the Freedmen's Monument in 1876.

Very true. But I think it was Du Bois's widely read article that rekindled the idea in black circles (while the cultural fad in the 1900-1930 period of glamorizing antebellum Southern culture was doing it in white circles) after several decades of black hagiography (see, for example, Booker T. Washington).

[bewitched]

The first redesigned penny (the front stays the same) was released today with the other 3 to follow throughout the year.