The father of the civil rights movement rose through determination and brilliance to shape americas nation. Mr. Douglass dedicated his whole life to gaining justice for America. In particular, African-Americans, Women, and minority groups. Frederick Douglass freed himself from slavery, and became the leading African-American voice of the nineteenth century. At an early age, he realized that, how he could read, was his one-way ticket to freedom. All of his efforts from then on was to gain freedom. As a young man, he came in contact with Black preachers, and taught in a Sabbath school in Baltimore. He married Anne Murray Douglass and setteled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. While in New Bedford he joined the abolitionist movement. Frederick Douglass was a big voice in the slavery movement. Douglass worked with abolitionist such as, Wendell Phillips and Abby Kelley. He also has a close relationship with John Brown. Together with abolitionist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Douglass signed the decleration of Sentiments that became the movement’s manifesto.