Racist interpretations of “the American Creed” prevailed until Honest Abe.
Talmage Boston April 18, 2026
Abraham Lincoln, played by Oliver Seale, read an abbreviated version of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Old City Park in 1995. The park was having its annual Old-Fashioned Independence Day.
With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence less than three months away, most people recognize that Thomas Jefferson’s words in the second paragraph of that document, known as “the American Creed,” are its most important part.
