Black Americans in Mourning Matt Carlson and kites in flight

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a small collection largely imitating the styles of the Romantics and the Victorians

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Black Americans in Mourning Matt Carlson and kites in flightCentering Black grief in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth carried out the first presidential assassination in United States history.? The euphoria resulting from General Lee's surrender evaporated at the news of Abraham Lincoln's murder. The nation excepting many white Southerners found itself consumed with grief, and no group mourned Lincoln more deeply than people of color. African Americans did not speak