One hundred and fifty years later, to the day…
August 27th, 2008 at 06:09pm Pat Cunningham
It was 150 years ago today that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met on a makeshift stage in Freeport, Ill., to debate slavery.
Little could they have imagined that an African-American would GAIN the presidential nomination of a major political party exactly a century and a half later.
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