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[DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818-1895)]. An admission card for the funeral services of Frederick Douglass held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, 25 February 1895. On black-bordered cardstock (64 x 102 mm). Douglass (misspelled here as “Douglas”) was a prominent African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Born into slavery in Maryland, Douglass escaped to the North in 1838, and would become an influential speaker and writer, known for his eloquence and compelling arguments against slavery. He published several autobiographies, the most famous of which is Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845. During the American Civil War, Douglass actively supported the Union cause, urging President Abraham Lincoln to allow African Americans to enlist in the Union Army and fight for their freedom. After the Civil War, he continued his advocacy work, fighting for civil rights, women’s suffrage, and education for freed slaves. He held various government positions, including U.S. Marshal and Minister to Haiti, and continued his activism until his death in 1895. His funeral was attended by thousands of the most prominent members of both white and African-American Washingtonian society, including Susan B. Anthony, Senator John Sherman, Supreme Court Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan, Blanche Kelso Bruce, John R. Lynch, and John Francis Cook, Jr.