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"In January of 1897, a schoolteacher, Mary Church Terrell, she persuaded the Washington D.C. school board to set aside the afternoon of Douglass's birthday, Frederick Douglass, as Douglas Day, to teach about his life, his work in segregated public schools at the time. Now, the thought process behind that was that scholars would acknowledge two reasons for his birth, recognition and importance. And in 1915, Woodson had participated in the Lincoln Jubilee, which is a celebration of the 50 years since emancipation from slavery."