Speech draft re: influence of Lincoln, given at New York Republican Club of NYC
1909/02/12
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Original draft of speech: "I was born a slave...my first recollection of Abraham Lincoln was...by the prayers of my mother...as she was kneeling over my body earnestly praying that Abraham Lincoln might succeed and that one day she and her boy might...
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