Dr. Lerone Bennett Jr. was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on October 17, 1928.
He spent over 50 years with Johnson Publishing, ultimately became executive editor of its Ebony magazine.
Bennett died at age 89 on February 14, 2018, in Chicago, his home base of many years.
Dr. Bennett's mother worked as a maid, his father a chauffeur.
Their son graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta.
His Booknotes television appearance was on July 21, 2000.
The book is titled "Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream." Bennett provided a different view of what is normally written about Mr. Lincoln.
Lerone Bennett Jr. claimed that Lincoln was a racist at heart and had little interest in abolition.
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