While today's high school student may be taught about Fredrick Douglas, they are most likely taught that he was a revolutionary leader against the tyranny of white oppression, but will most likely not be taught that he was also a target of those whites who, in that day, were Democrats who, formed the K.K.K. as its military arm to lynch blacks, and imposed Jim Crow laws in the south, in reaction to their slavery being ended via abolitionists, the formation of the Republican party, and the civil war.
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