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Abraham Lincoln wrote a job reference for a Black friend in 1861. It's on view at the Presidential Library and Museum | Fortune

Abraham Lincoln personally intervened to seek employment for William Johnson, a dark-complexioned Black White House servant shunned by lighter-skinned freed staff.
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