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 ...

This historic townhouse in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s desirable Dupont Circle neighborhood hosted the wedding of ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court,” Frederick Douglass told a civil rights meeting in 1883, “is the autocratic point in our national ...

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863 ... he wrote his mother ...

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 ...

“Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass,” through 2026. A joint purchase by the Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this five-screen video installation ...

In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was hung in the National Portrait ... films including his executively produced and ...

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 ...