February 20, 1895
Death of Republican activist Frederick Douglass – escaped slave, author, abolition leader, civil rights champion
If you want an interesting exercise in Googling, search the biographies of Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and other early civil rights activists and see how many of those biographies neglect to mention that these civil rights pioneers were Republicans, fighting against Democratic racism.
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