Douglass started out illiterate and taught himself to read and - TopicsExpress



          

Douglass started out illiterate and taught himself to read and then became an orator and then become a political adviser to Lincoln, De Shields said. In retrospect, he became an influence on every major African-American revolutionary thinker, including Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Barack Obama, all men who think about a dream for a united America. In this day and age, when history has almost gone the way the way of a faded photograph, we need to be reminded of the icons who made it possible to be where we are now. bit.ly/1aIi9Wn
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:06:01 +0000

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