click image for close-up By the time this photograph of Frederick Douglass was taken, slavery in the United States had been abolished. After the Civil War Douglass would to fight for the rights of ...
Kenneth Morris is the great-great-great-grandson of the heralded abolitionist and helped compile an illustrated biography of his ancestor. (Credit: Drew Gardner) Explore Subscribe Newsletters ...
The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...
With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and ...
The Supreme Court,” Frederick Douglass told a civil rights meeting in 1883, “is the autocratic point in our national ...
On many college campuses, including some in Georgia, students mobilized for Donald Trump. His support among 18- to 29-year-olds increased nationally from 2020 to 2024, according to exit polling. A CNN ...
this semi-staged opera tells the story of Frederick Douglas. A fitting program three days before the election, this work ...
HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house near Dupont Circle was at the time owned by a founder of the NAACP ...
Jun 30, 2024 Jun 30, 2024 Updated Oct 6, 2024 MANCHESTER — Eleven reverent souls stood in City Hall Plaza on Saturday, reading a keynote address given by Frederick Douglass, a famous African ...
Two churches, across the centuries. Generations after their birth in this nation first envisioned in Philadelphia, both ...
Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...
National Museum of African American History and Culture Broadside for "Men of Color" Recruitment National Museum of African American History and Culture Illustrated portrait of Frederick Douglass ...