Yesterday, April 15, 2015, marked the 150th Anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln at the Ford Theater in Washington, DC. President Lincoln was pronounced dead on April 15, 1865. He was 56 years old. President Lincoln is commonly remembered for his role in ending slavery and bringing the North and South together as one. While President Lincoln was anti-slavery and provided aide to the Union, his intent of his support of the beginning of The Civil War was not to end slavery rather to preserve the country as a whole. After three years of The Civil War and hundreds of thousands of combat related deaths among soldiers and the hardships it created from both the …show more content…
Lee, surrendered himself making this an ending point to the final days of the Civil War. President Lincoln did not live long enough to see how his contribution to the ending of slavery affected the United States. Today President Lincoln is remembered in numerous ways. Six National Parks pay tribute to the late President: Abraham Lincoln National Historic Site, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, the Lincoln Memorial, and Mount Rushmore National Monument (Lincoln's Legacy, n.d.). There are countless towns, streets, schools, businesses, and housing named after President Lincoln (Lincoln's Legacy, n.d.). In the famous, “I have a Dream” Speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr in 1963 he mentioned the impact President Lincoln had on the abolishment of slavery. Martin Luther King, Jr began the speech with this quote: “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.” (Lincoln's Legacy,