CSPAN3 Abraham Lincoln And The Jewish Community July 10, 2016
Rights exhibit which you would have passed on your way in tonight, marks an episode when president Abraham Lincoln directly independent interseeded for american jews. The document is general grants to ber 1862 general order expel jews from the department of tennessee. Grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. Jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky, appealed to lincoln, expressing their outrage and lincoln counter manneded grants order. History cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us august. Incident rik lir auth incidentically what authentically wha...