Frederick Douglass University

Frederick Douglass University The purpose of this group is to inform everyone--especially the black community-- about the historical connection between the black community and the GOP.

The purpose of this group is to help spread the truth about the political history of the black community and how it relates to the GOP. The abolishment of slavery in America and the creation of the Republican Party are linked together. This and other historical truths have been kept from Black Americans, for a long time.

On this day in history, September 3, 1894, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech entitled "Blessings of Liberty and Educ...
09/03/2025

On this day in history, September 3, 1894, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech entitled "Blessings of Liberty and Education" at the Industrial School of Manassas in Manassas, Virginia.

It was the 56th anniversary of his escape from slavery.

During his speech Douglass said, "I think colored people make a great mistake in saying so much of race and color. In this race-way they put the emphasis in the wrong place. The colored people should advance the high position of the Constitution. It makes no distinction on account of race or color, and they should make none."

On this day in history, September 3, 1849, Frederick Douglass published a letter to his former master, Thomas Auld, in t...
09/03/2025

On this day in history, September 3, 1849, Frederick Douglass published a letter to his former master, Thomas Auld, in the North Star. Douglass congratulated him for releasing all of his slaves after he read the letter Douglass published a year earlier.

It was the 11th anniversary of Douglass' successful escape from slavery.

In the letter Douglass wrote, "I have been told by a person, upon whose word I can rely, that you have ceased to be a slaveholder and have emancipated all of your slaves."

"You have also taken my grandmother, who is now too old to sustain herself in freedom, and you're providing for her in a manner becoming a Christian man. I congratulate you warmly...and I no longer regard you as an enemy to freedom, nor to myself--but shall hail you as a friend to both."

On this day in history, September 3, 1838, Frederick Douglass successfully escaped from slavery.Douglass escaped by borr...
09/03/2025

On this day in history, September 3, 1838, Frederick Douglass successfully escaped from slavery.

Douglass escaped by borrowing the identification papers of a free black sailor that matched his physical his description.

Douglass then dressed as a sailor and boarded a train to New York.

He eventually made his home in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

On this day in history, July 7, 1868, North Carolina Republican State Senator Abraham Galloway took his seat in the st...
07/07/2025

On this day in history, July 7, 1868, North Carolina Republican State Senator Abraham Galloway took his seat in the state senate along with two other black senators and 17 black republican house members.

Senator Galloway was 31 years old at the time.

The Wilmington Journal described him as "the pugilistic Indian Senator" and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, in New York, described him as "the colored Napoleon."

Senator Galloway, who was born a slave, worked as a spy for the Union Army behind Confederate lines and he helped recruit former slaves from the Wilmington area.

Senator Galloway was also one of the founders of the North Carolina Republican Party.

On this day in history, July 5, 1924, 5,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered to celebrate their victory during the...
07/05/2025

On this day in history, July 5, 1924, 5,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered to celebrate their victory during the Democrat National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York.

The participants, who were also convention delegates, celebrated the passage of their issues on the Democrat Platform. They met at Elwood Park in Long Branch, New Jersey and burned crosses and made speeches. During this event, several Klan members attacked 6 people that were watching nearby.

This is a copy of an article from the New York Times that covered the event.

On this day in history, July 5, 1907, a Seattle newspaper published an interview with South Carolina Democrat Senator ...
07/05/2025

On this day in history, July 5, 1907, a Seattle newspaper published an interview with South Carolina Democrat Senator Ben Tillman.

During the interview, Tillman said "The Negro question, in the South, will ultimately result in massacres of blacks by whites."

"That can no more be avoided than can be the question of white supremacy be avoided by the men who have undertaken to prove that the negro is entitled to equal rights and privileges with the white man."

On this day in history, July 4, 1875, Republican Congressman John Mercer Langston delivered a speech at the Independen...
07/04/2025

On this day in history, July 4, 1875, Republican Congressman John Mercer Langston delivered a speech at the Independence Day celebration at Hillsdale. He appeared with Frederick Douglass.

During his speech Langston said, "Self-respect presupposes self-reliance. Do we respect ourselves? Then we are self-reliant."

"These two qualities are necessary, yes, indispensable to a people who would successfully work the machinery of civil government, and thereby lift themselves into higher forms of independent manhood."

"Are we prepared to govern ourselves, or do we need to be flanked by white-men, the self-constituted guardians of the negro? These are the questions that we discuss today."

On this day in history, July 4, 1875, Republican activist Frederick Douglass delivered a speech at the Independence D...
07/04/2025

On this day in history, July 4, 1875, Republican activist Frederick Douglass delivered a speech at the Independence Day celebration at Hillsdale.

About 23 years earlier, Douglass delivered a speech that asked the question, "What does the colored-man have to do with the 4th of July?" In THIS speech, he answered his own question.

During his speech Douglass said, "If any person should ask what the colored man has to do with the 4th of July, the answer is ready. They were at Lewisburg, Ticonderoga, Quebec, Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. The manly form of Major Pitcairne was brought down by the musket of the colored soldier Peter Salem.

The colored man has much to do with the 4th of July."

On this day in history, July 4, 1867, the Georgia Republican party was officially established. Congressman Jefferson L...
07/04/2025

On this day in history, July 4, 1867, the Georgia Republican party was officially established. Congressman Jefferson Long was one of the party's original founders.

Congressman Long, who was also born a slave in Knoxville, Georgia, was elected to Congress in 1870 and was the first black man to speak on the floor of the House of Representatives.

On this day in history, July 4, 1867, the Texas Republican Party was officially established.The Texas GOP was founded by...
07/04/2025

On this day in history, July 4, 1867, the Texas Republican Party was officially established.

The Texas GOP was founded by a majority of African-Americans. The initial convention was attended by 170 delegates, in which 93 percent of them were black.

In July of 1848, Frederick Douglass criticized the Democrat Party for refusing to tolerate anti-slavery Democrats within...
07/03/2025

In July of 1848, Frederick Douglass criticized the Democrat Party for refusing to tolerate anti-slavery Democrats within their ranks. Douglass published his comments in the North Star.

In his column Douglass wrote, "From the moment it became known that Silas Wright was opposed to the extension of slavery, he was hunted and persecuted by the leaders of the Democrat Party to the day of his death!"

On this day in history, July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the first Morrill Land Grant Act into law. The bi...
07/02/2025

On this day in history, July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the first Morrill Land Grant Act into law. The bill was sponsored by Republican Congressman Justin Morrill from Vermont.

The bill led to the creation of black colleges throughout the South including North Carolina A&T University, Tuskegee Institute, Virginia State University, and 17 other historically black colleges.

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