Frederick Douglass , The father of the civil rights movement
Date Submitted: 01/26/2004 17:44:53
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 2 pages (626 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 2 pages (626 words)
Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. Duglass was never sure of the exact year of his
birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. His father was white (probably his master)
and his mother was a slave. As was the cruel custom in that part of Maryland, he was
separated from his slave mother when he was an infant and cared for by an …
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…Freedman Bank, and hold various government appointments including minister to Haiti and US marshal for District of Columbia. He died in 1895, and by this time had accomplished so much that five state legislatures adopted resolutions of regret and the United States Post Office issued a twenty-five cent stamp to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth in 1967. Douglass is still known by many as 'THE FATHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.'
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