Citizenship and limited suffrageEdit

" In his second term as president, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln gave a speech in which he promoted voting rights for blacks.^[90] John Wilkes Booth, a Southerner and outspoken Confederate sympathizer attended the speech and became determined to kill Lincoln for supporting citizenship for blacks.^[91] On April 14, 1865, three days later, Lincoln was assassinated by Booth and died the next day. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery