A BLACK REPUBLICAN PARADIGM OF HOPE: FREDERICK DOUGLASS
“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”
Frederick Douglass
Please read this Hip Hop Republican article on Frederick Douglass.
In addition to these honors, in 1872 he was also the first African-American to be nominated to the office of Vice-President of The United States as Victoria Woodhull’s running mate on The Equal Right’s Party Ticket. In 1888, at the Republican National Convention, Douglass also received one vote as President of The United States making him the first African-American to receive any vote at all as President of the United States in the United States. And, in 1892, he was appointed Commissioner to The Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition by The Haitian Government. Frederick Douglass was also referred to as “the founder of The American Civil Rights Movement.”
