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20 hours ago · In response to these executives’ attempts to weaken or outright eliminate the checks on their power, citizens fought back — from abolitionist Frederick Douglass to journalists Ida B. Wells and ...
5 days ago · HOWARD ZINN: Frederick Douglass, once a slave, became a brilliant and powerful leader of the anti-slavery movement. In 1852, he was asked to speak in celebration of the Fourth of July.
5 days ago · Historian David W. Blight talks about Douglass’s first wife, Anna, their five children (four of whom lived to adulthood), and his long and turbulent friendship with German feminist and abolitionist Otillie Assing.
5 days ago · His new wife was named Helen Pitts, a much younger white woman. When Frederick Douglass died in February of 1895 at the age of 77, people across the country mourned his passing, and thousands came to pay their respects at his funeral in Washington, DC. I asked David Blight why Frederick Douglass started feeling adrift in his later years.
5 days ago · A Tuesday CNN poll showed Harris performing better against Donald Trump than Biden, ... “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more ...
6 days ago · "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine," thundered Frederick Douglass in 1852. "You may rejoice. ... When Donald Trump muses that he might need to vacate parts of the Constitution, or assume ...
5 days ago · Hernández invoked abolitionist Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" while ruminating on the subject. "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity...
