Traveling to Lincoln from Boston, Higginbotham said her grandfather, the Rev. Walter Henderson Brooks, was born a slave in 1851. He “worked” for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia.

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There's been another exit from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. Christian McWhirter, the Lincoln Historian at the ALPLM, confirmed his resignation via LinkedIn ...

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