Life of Frederick Douglass Still Acts as a Beacon for JusticeLynch, Suzanne
features, and amongst the slaves was remarkably sedate and dignified.” She died when he was about seven years old. As an adult, Douglass learned that his mother had been the only Black person in what was then Talbot county who could read, an extraordinarily rare achievement for a field ...
African American Activist Frederick Douglass is the main focus of the project, although it has grown to include Moses Roper, Josiah Henson, James Watkins, and Ida B. Wells, to name a few. Douglass was an abolitionist, civil rights activist, feminist and advocate of social justice. He travelle...
By 1843, Douglass had become part of the American Anti-Slavery Society’s “Hundred Conventions” project, a six-month tour through the United States. Douglass was physically assaulted several times during the tour by those opposed to the abolitionist movement. In one particularly brutal attack, ...
"The Frederick Douglass Jazz Works stands firmly at the confluence of Art, History and Social Justice. It reflects greatness in all three realms, and I'm humbled to play a small part in presenting it." Born and raised in Washington, DC, Mark has developed into one of the premier drummer...
Toward the end of the 20th century, the expanding availability of documents at the Library of Congress and the University of Rochester, the publication of Philip Foner's The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, John Blassingame's Frederick Douglass Papers Project, and new methods of ...