country that the former slaveholders were regaining control of the South. In February 1866, Douglass talked with another President, President Andrew Johnson. Frederick went with his son Lewis and three other black leaders. They talked to Johnson about the need for changes in the southern state governments. The president did not really take much note just saying he would bring it to the people of the country. Douglass vowed to do the same. Douglass also was a delegate for New York at a meeting in 1866 dedicated to the resolution of black suffrage. Even though the Republicans could not look at him as an equal Frederick Douglass still spoke out and made himself know on this view. Because of Douglass speeches and hard work black suffrage was know an amendment to the Constitution, the Fourteenth. That meant that voting was guarantied by the Constitution and could not be dined. As 1867 came Douglass was asked by President Johnson to take charge of the Freedman's Bureau. He dined this offer, for he did not want to be associated with this President after he dined blacks so many programs. During the 1868 presidential election Douglass campaigned for the Republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant. In a famous speech, "The Work Before Us," Douglass went after the Democratic party for ignoring black citizens. He also warned about the rise in the South of white supremacist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. Douglass was afraid that the tactics of the Klan would frighten blacks into giving up the civil rights they had gained in the South. The Republicans won the 1868 election with the support of the black vote. Later that year after the Fifteenth Amendment was passed the last meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society was held. Douglass spoke very highly of the many people who helped the blacks win their struggles and get to where they were at. He was modest about his own achievements though but no one had fought harder for black rights than Do...
