Lincolns Long, Lasting Legacy James Wilkes Booth may not have known it but killing Lincoln was the turning point in the Civil War. The Civil War began over the controversial topic of slavery over the blacks, between the North and the South. The assassination of Lincoln left an impact on America because it impacted many lives from the south, was the beginning in the ending inequality of the blacks, and left a legacy that shall forever be remember. Although Lincoln was a good man, some did not agree with the things that Lincoln believed in. Almost everyone in the south did not like the way lincoln ran county. These people fighted for the confederate. James Wilkes Booth was a Confederate Spy that killed Lincoln. James Wilkes Booth watched the time, waiting for the comical line “ You sockdologizing ol mantrap” (Swanson 40). When Harry Hark spoke the line, the crowd roared with laughter and Booth took his shot. The bullet entered Lincoln head, behind the jaw, and rested behind the eye. Many heard the shot but nothing of it, but others began to panic and chaos broke …show more content…
Lincoln was pronounced dead on April 15, 1865, which was 6 days after the civil war ended. The civil war may have ended slavery, but it did not end segregation, it was what came next. Fighting broke out in the streets amongst all, the white and the black, the north and the south. Even after lincoln's death the citizens of America didn't realize how Blacks should be treated equal until the end of the Civil Rights Movement which ended in 1968 ( Zengerle 1). The blacks worked hard for there freedom and right such as Sanders.Sanders went from being an eager student -- the kind who devoured, cover-to-cover, the two encyclopedias that comprised his school's entire library -- to a determined one”( Zengerle 1). America hadn't realized what Lincoln wanted for the blacks and that didn't means to end