To Address You as My Friend Victoria Williamson ''-Jon Pangborn

''-Jon Pangborn

Most educational leaders are not 'heroic' but rather ordinary people who through extraordinary commitment

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To Address You as My Friend Victoria Williamson ''-Jon PangbornMany African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. Their letters express the dilemmas, doubts, and dreams of both