His life was spent obviously fighting for freedom, leading in the years before the Civil War, leading opposition to slavery, and then in the years after that. I mean, he was Frederick Douglass...was appointed by presidents to serve in various different functions. but was always advocating first for the post Civil War amendments and then for civil rights legislation after that. And nobody was as powerful as he was in doing that. (02:55–04:11)
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