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Once This Was the Party of Frederick Douglass

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920819
Author:Colbert I. King

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Douglass boasted, "The Republican Party is the ship, all else the sea." If Douglass were in Houston to read this year's rigidly conservative platform, or witness the marginal role of black Republicans in this convention, he would quickly grasp why most African Americans haven't sailed on the GOP vessel for years.

The Houston gathering is a pale imitation of the party Frederick Douglass touted. Douglass's GOP was the major political party of social progress. Despite some backsliding during the post-Reconstruction period, Republicans led the fight to ...

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