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Today in History: President Abraham Lincoln Is Shot
04/14/10
On April 14, 1865—just a few days after the North’s victory in the Civil War—President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot as he watched a play at Ford’s Theatre. It was the first presidential assassination in U.S. history and brought on a national outpouring of grief.
On the anniversary of Lincoln’s death in 1876, the African-American author and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass gave a speech in tribute to Lincoln at an unveiling ceremony for the Freedmen’s Monument to President Lincoln (also known as the Emancipation Memorial) in Washington, D.C. The monument was financed through small donations from freed slaves who wished to express their gratitude to Lincoln.
Read FREDERICK DOUGLASS’S TRIBUTE TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN