"President Abraham Lincoln holds his spectacles and a pencil in February 1865. A year earlier, a pamphlet called ""Miscegenation"" accused Lincoln of supporting interracial sex to create an ""American race."" It was a hoax meant to cost him his re-election. It didn't work, but the rumor never truly died."
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