http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/21725/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/nytimes-op-ed-suggests-vote-suppressing-gop-would-have-stopped-frederick-douglass-voting <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The <em>New York Times </em>ran a bizarre op-ed Friday by Yale history professor David Blight, accusing Republicans of suppressing the black vote just like it was done to blacks before the Civil War, and suggested they would do the same to escaped slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass: "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/opinion/frederick-douglass-and-voter-fraud.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all">Voter Suppression, Then and Now</a>." <img src="http://www.mrc.org/sites/default/files/images/Frederick_Douglass.jpg.crop_display.jpg" style="float: right;" height="186" w</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/nytimes-op-ed-suggests-vote-suppressing-gop-would-have-stopped-frederick-douglass-voting" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Campaign 2012 David Blight Frederick Douglass Voter Identification Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:35:36 +0000 clay.waters 41169 at http://archive2.mrc.org