Frederick Douglass

These are some facts I found about Frederick Douglass

* Born on February 14, 1817
* He was an American abolitionist and journalist
* He is often referred to as the "father" of the modern civil rights movement
* He was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland
* He spent his teen years as a houseboy in Baltimore
* He escaped to North to New Bedford, Massachussetts in 1836
* In 1841 he began a career as an abolitionist
* He served as U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia (1877-81), and U.S. minister of Haiti (1889-91)
* He died in Washington, D.C. on February 20, 1895

http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/douglass.html

Mariah Shriner, Frank's Project Team