July 26: Long Before The World Was “Woke,” These Lincoln Supporters Were “Wide Awakes”

July 26: Long Before The World Was “Woke,” These Lincoln Supporters Were “Wide Awakes”

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-26-TodayinCTHist.mp3   The idea of being “woke” to the dimensions of racial injustice in America entered mainstream public awareness with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. But more than 150 years earlier, a group of young Abraham Lincoln supporters in Hartford declared themselves “Wide Awakes” in the effort t…