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Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. #DouglassDay
Jan 12, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Happy Tuesday!

#DidYouKnow the origins of Douglass Day helped to inspire #BlackHistoryMonth?

A thread... 1/ Let's go back to the year of 1895.

We can think about Jim Crow. About the rise of lynchings documented in #IdaBWells' Red Record. About the plague of racial injustice across the nation.

That year, Frederick Douglass passed away at the age of seventy-seven. 2/