February was chosen as Black History Month because it contains the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

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What Was Frederick Douglass’s Position on Women’s Rights?

In the aftermath of the American Civil War and at the beginnings of the Reconstruction period, communities of abolitionists readily took up the cause of universal suffrage and called for enfranchisement irrespective of race or gender. Frederick Douglass was one such prominent abolitionist and