| Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:52 PM CDT |
Colleges offer class to celebrate Lincoln's birthday
BLOOMINGTON — In 2009, the state and the nation will celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, but McLean County isn’t going to wait.
“We believe that the bicentennial should be more than a one-year event,” said McLean County Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission member Roger Bridges.
The commission has already hosted exhibits and speakers. In its latest effort to encourage the community to learn more about the president honored as the Great Emancipator, the group is promoting a new initiative, “McLean County Reads on Lincoln.”
More than anything else, the group is encouraging the public to read “The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics,” by James Oakes, Bridges said.
“We are trying to encourage the community to study Lincoln’s views on race and its impact on the community today,” said Bridges. In the next several months, two speakers also will be brought in to discuss the topic.
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