Harry S. Truman, born in 1894, revered his grandparents, basically growing up on his mother and grandmother's knee. Walking alongside their ox on that dismal dusty trail was Truman’s mother Martha. Truman, like Lincoln, changed his attitudes towards Blacks, but it took politics and life’s revelations to do so. While still young, now being from Independence, Missouri, Truman realized the focus of the nation was also on the development of the West. ————————————Source Materials: American Heritage, The Conversation of Harry Truman and the Truman Presidential Library.