Frederick Douglass understood that the struggle for emancipation and equality demanded forceful, persistent, and unyielding agitation by the African American population.
"After the Civil War, when the 15th Amendment giving black men the right to vote was being debated, Douglass split with the Stanton-led faction of the women's rights movement
Douglass thought such a strategy was too risky, that there was barely enough support for black men's suffrage

