Was John Wilkes Booth a white supremacist?

Answer 1

Yes. John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Lincoln was directly motivated by white supremacy. At the time of the Civil War, slavery was the major issue, having directly led to the secession of slave-holding Southern states. Booth, upset that the South had recently lost the war and unhappy because President Lincoln had publicly proposed to give black men equal political rights, conspired to overthrow the United States government by assassinating the president and other senior American political officials.