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History Book Club at Roseville Library: “The Children of Lincoln”
September 18, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT
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Wednesday, September 18, 1 pm.
Roseville Library, 2180 North Hamline Avenue, Roseville
(Meet in the upstairs Board Room)
Join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Ramsey County Library for the September installment of History Book Club. This month’s selection is William D. Green’s The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876.
Framed around four white champions of African Americans in Minnesota, The Children of Lincoln reveals a little known but critical chapter in the state’s history as it intersects with the broader account of race in America. It reveals a pattern of racial paternalism, describing how even “enlightened” white Northerners would come to embrace policies that reinforced a notion of black inferiority.
We will meet in the Board Room on the second floor of the Roseville Library, 2180 North Hamline Avenue, at County Road B.
Request a copy from your local library or independent bookseller!
Free and open to the public.