civil rights movement

i choose fredrick douglass for my NHD project because he was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement because he wanted to help the people like how he let the slavess have freedom fredrick douglass started his own newspaper called the north star it was on freedom for slaves. president abraham licoln reconized fredrick douglass and invited him to the white house to talk to him about slavery fredrick urged president lincoln to use negro soldiers in the army of the north in the civil war.