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A BLACK REPUBLICAN PARADIGM OF HOPE: FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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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.”