Dear Reader: From This Perspective, Part 2
Dear Reader, I’m not sure how my words will find you when you read them, but I pray…
Frederick Douglass
Harry Lee, Willie Mae and Fannie Lou: ‘Lest we forget’
BY GOLIATH J. DAVIS, III, PH.D., Contributor ST. PETERSBURG — I am asked why I am…
Frederick Douglass, Family, and Biography
By Ezra Greenspan | Black Perspectives A flurry of recent scholarship on Frederick…
Frederick Douglass and the Periodization of Reconstruction
By Doug Egerton | Black Perspectives When I began research on the project that finally…
Frederick Douglass and the hypocrisy of American slavery
BY Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq., ASALH President There is one African American who survived…
The critical role of education in the history of African Americans, Part l
As a young enslaved boy in Baltimore, Frederick Douglass bartered pieces of bread for…
The importance of the Declaration of Independence to African-American liberation
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, President, ASALH On November 7, 1775, the representatives of the…
You’ve got to check out the Frederick Douglass house, D.C.’s answer to Monticello
By Sadie Dingfelder | Washington Post On a recent Friday, I ran up the 85 steps to…
A Nation’s Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Source: National Museum of African American History & Culture On July 5, 1852,…
Who needs history?
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, ASALH Historian Why is history important? Some may feel that…
Frederick Douglass’ Defiant Stand at Chicago’s World’s Fair
Daniel Hautzinger | WTTW Frederick Douglass never knew the date of his own birth, or even…
A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves
By Barbara Krauthamer, SALON Over the past few days, the national climate has grown…
Frederick Douglass: The Greatest African-American Leader of the Abolitionist Movement
By Meserette Kentake, Kentake Page Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in…