A Night Not To Be Forgotten
the black people of this country who were freed by the War's end. And I often wonder how this nation might have been different had the President survived. Would the South had been welcomed back into the country with open arms like he had hoped? Would the terror of racial hatred and injustice in the South not have been as pervasive? Would he have followed up his Emancipation with support and initiative for laws to back up his immortal words of 1863? I do not know. But I do know that for me, and for the rest of this nation, for as long as it is in existence, the night of April 14, 1865 will be a night not be forgotten.
Work Consulted
Oates, S. B. (1994). With malice towards none: A life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Harper-Perennial.
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