SOURCE: NPR
10/29/2020
tags: Frederick Douglass, voting rights
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10/29/2020
The Most Sacred Right
Breaking Newstags: Frederick Douglass, voting rights
Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of slavery, the Civil War and the violence of Jim Crow, he fought his entire life for what he believed was a sacred, natural right that should be available to all people - voting.
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