Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass has been called the father of the civil rights movement. He rose from slavery to become the leading Afican-American voice of the nineteenth century. He served as advisor to presidents. For example, Abraham Lincoln. he served as U.S Marshal of the District of Columbia during Rutherford B. Hayes’ adminstration and President James Garfield appointed him to be the US minister to Haiti. he refined his reading, writing and speaking skills. Frederick Douglass was a compelling force in the anti-slavery movement. He was a man of moral authority, and he developed into a charismatic public speaker. he established his own weekly abolitionist newspaper, the North Star, that became a major voice of African American Fifty-Forth massachusetts Volunteers. Douglass and an abolitionist and feminsist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, signed the Declaration of Sentiments that became the movement’s manifesto. frederick Douglass died on February 1895. Frederick Douglass
