Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches is a 2022 documentary movie. It features the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass. He was a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement and a voice for human ...

HISTORY. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS WERE SAFE PLACES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. PEOPLE DIDN’T CARE WHAT COLOR YOU WERE. YOU COULD GET A JOB ON A WHALING SHIP. THE WHALING CITY ...

For Black History Month, we’re looking at the wives of prominent figures of the abolitionist movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Host Jane Clayson speaks with Kellie Carter Jackson, an associate ...

HUDSON, Ohio — Nearly two centuries after abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered his only college commencement, a new generation of students at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson are bringing that ...

BOSTONBOSTON — A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the ...

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and ...

Without Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass may have never escaped slavery. Her legacy is intertwined with her husband’s. The life and legacy of Anna Murray Douglass, wife of abolitionist ...

BOSTON — A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the ...