Indiana students learn lessons on democracy from Lincoln, Douglass. Here's how:
When Sen. Richard Lugar died in 2019, his legacies included an annual event at the University of Indianapolis. Hundreds of high school students from across Indiana spend a day in classrooms, where professors talk of politics, history, and the world.
At this year’s event on Dec. 3, I invited students to read aloud quotes from two speeches from the Civil War era. Both spoke to democracy and how it works.he spoke to a crowd in Lawrenceburg The other speech was by Lincoln’s friend and ally Frederick Douglass, the orator and writer who had escaped from slavery. Douglass celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation but also prodded Lincoln, in public and in private, to act more swiftly against slavery and discrimination. Lincoln explained to him that political reality — the prejudice of many voters — forced him to move step by step.
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