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The x-ray diffraction pattern of the material, taken with CuK**ya radiation, indicated the presence of no extra lines and was in good agreement with the pattern of Douglass.

White female abolitionists and suffragists were often more comfortable with black male abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, while southern segregationalists and stereotypes of black female promiscuity and immorality caused protests whenever black women spoke.

He wrote two more autobiographies, with his last, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, published in 1881 and covering events through and after the Civil War.

Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant, famously quoted as saying, " I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

As told in his autobiography, Douglass succeeded in learning to read from white children in the neighborhood and by observing the writings of men with whom he worked.

Mrs. Auld one day saw Douglass reading a newspaper ; she ran over to him and snatched it from him, with a face that said education and slavery were incompatible with each other.

In later years, Douglass credited The Columbian Orator, which he discovered at about age twelve, with clarifying and defining his views on freedom and human rights.

Dissatisfied with Douglass, Thomas Auld sent him to work for Edward Covey, a poor farmer who had a reputation as a " slave-breaker.

After losing a physical confrontation with Douglass, Covey never tried to beat him again.

In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore about five years older than him.

After meeting and staying with Nathan and Mary Johnson, they adopted Douglass as their married name.

Douglass was inspired by Garrison and later stated that " no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments the hatred of slavery as did those of William Lloyd Garrison.

" Garrison was likewise impressed with Douglass and wrote of him in The Liberator.

In 1846 Douglass met with Thomas Clarkson, one of the last living British abolitionists, who had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery in Great Britain and its colonies.

Many tried to encourage Douglass to remain in England to be truly free of the fear of chains, but with three million of his black brethren in bondage in the US, he left England in spring of 1847.

" Douglass ' powerful words rang true with enough attendees that the resolution passed.

In 1851, Douglass merged the North Star with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper to form Frederick Douglass ' Paper, which was published until 1860.

Douglass came to agree with Smith and Lysander Spooner that the United States Constitution was an anti-slavery document.

Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.

Douglass later shared a stage at a speaking engagement in Harpers Ferry with Andrew Hunter, the prosecutor who successfully convicted Brown.

Douglass was disappointed that President Lincoln did not publicly endorse suffrage for black freedmen.

In his speech, Douglass spoke frankly about Lincoln, noting what he perceived as both the positive and negative attributes of the late President.

In his last autobiography The Life & Times of Frederick Douglass, Douglass referred to Lincoln as America's " greatest President.

In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket.

At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.

They nominated the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass for Vice President.

* February 22 – General George Marshall transmits a direct order to General Douglass MacArthur in President Roosevelt's name, ordering MacArthur himself to turn over command of the Philippines to a subordinate and report to Australia to assume command of the large American force being built up there.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

In 1886 he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, the highest federal position filled by black men at the time ; two other prominent men of color of that era, Fredrick Douglass ( 1881 – 1886 ) and Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce ( 1891 – 1893 ), served before and after Trotter.

The Georgetown graveyard overlooks Rock Creek, and is shared with: Chief Justice Edward Douglass White ; and " almost-Justice " Edwin M. Stanton ( President Ulysses S. Grant's nomination of him was confirmed by the Senate, but Stanton died before he could be sworn in ).

Among his many admirers and friends were Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and President Andrew Johnson.

In 2005, Rutgers University President Richard Levis McCormick unveiled plans to merge Douglass College with the University's other undergraduate liberal arts colleges at Rutgers-New Brunswick — Rutgers College, Livingston College, Cook College, and University College — to create the School of Arts and Sciences.

President Zachary Taylor and Chief Justice Edward Douglass White were also descendants of Richard Lee I. Confederate President Jefferson Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor.

But Douglass also asked, " Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word?

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics.

Fields, Ed Bearss, and Stephen B. Oates ; and actors reading contemporary quotes from historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Chesnut, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass.

" Stephen Douglas said that " the negro " Frederick Douglass told " all the friends of negro equality and negro citizenship to rally as one man around Abraham Lincoln.

To establish " a street presence ," the society has installed life-size bronze sculptures outside the building — Abraham Lincoln on Central Park West, Frederick Douglass on West 77th Street-national figures with connections to New York.

This week was chosen because it marked the birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

Others from whom Biscet has taken inspiration are Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, José Martí, and Frederick Douglass.

Letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and others, vividly record the issues and events of their day.