who is the father of the civil rights movement?.................
Frederick Douglass â Father of Americaâs Civil Rights Movement. Frederick Douglass was a man who continually reinvented himself and would, in time, create the modern American civil rights movement and reshape American politics. The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, âFrederick Augustus Washington Baileyâ was born in February of 1818 on Marylandâs eastern shore.