On the night of November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln gave a groundbreaking speech on the terrible events of the Civil War, though very short that one speech changed the history of African Americans everywhere. 100 years later Civil Rights Activist, Martin Luther King Jr, gave a similar speech on The Lincoln Memorial.
Abraham Lincoln gave this speech to encourage people to keep on fighting for equality to all men. He started his speech by breaking down the believe of the forefathers before us who set up this land. He says a sentence describing America as a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.“ He uses this to remind us the purpose the for which this nation