Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838. He became a powerful and prominent figure in the abolitionist ...

Born into slavery in the early 1800s, Frederick Douglass would live to see the Civil War, Emancipation, Black men getting the right to vote, and the beginning of the terrors and humiliations of ...

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, Douglass ...

On Sunday, Frederick Douglass High School opened its doors to the community for no-excuse absentee voting. Douglass High School has been hosting early voting since November of 2020. Despite the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday used a tribute to 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass to renew the call for equal voting rights for people who live in the nation ...

Frederick Douglass Elementary is located in the heart of Walnut Hills. It’s in danger of closing. On the front steps of the school Monday morning, community leaders gathered to speak out against ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. We urge all Americans to consider the ideas, life and legacy of the… ...

4 Douglass saw speech, the written word, and the vote as equally sacred forms of human expression. He saw the franchise as a protector, a guardian of all other rights.

Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838. He became a powerful and prominent figure in the abolitionist ...

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