Elizabeth Keckley: The Former Slave Who Knew the Lincoln White House’s Most Private Secrets — Then Vanished Into History
WASHINGTON – She died alone in a small room, a faded photograph of Abraham Lincoln on the wall above her bed. No family gathered. No officials mourned. The date was May 26, 1907, and the woman who breathed her last in that quiet corner of the National Home for Destitute Colored Women and Children had … Read more