Frederick Douglass

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/29/2020
  

  The Most Sacred Right

  Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of slavery, the Civil War and the violence of Jim Crow, he fought his entire life for what he believed was a sacred, natural right that should be available to all people - voting.  

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/12/2020
  

  For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword

  Photographs of generations of Black suffragists offer invaluable documents about their thwarted and central roles in the history of women’s rights.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/6/2020
  

  Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down in Rochester, N.Y., on Anniversary of His Famous Fourth of July Speech

  In 1852, Douglass asked the city’s residents and the country: ‘What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?’

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/4/2020
  

  How a Lincoln-Douglass Debate Led to Historic Discovery

  Just like that, a document apparently unknown to Douglass’s biographers and not found in the orator’s papers at the Library of Congress had landed squarely in the middle of the debate that has swept the nation and the neighborhood around Lincoln Park where the statue stands.

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• SOURCE: Spectrum News
  10/25/19
  

  Nothing Can be Salvaged From Frederick Douglass' Time Capsule

  The city historian said material in the time capsule dates back to 1898, with additional items being added in 1941, but nothing can be salvaged.

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• 7/21/19
  

  Do We Want the America of Frederick Douglass or Donald Trump?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Which kind of America do we want? A “composite nation” that takes pride in its ethnic and religious diversity and sets an example for other countries who are fearful of immigrants? Or an America afraid of immigrants, especially if not lily white, Christian ones, as Trump and many of his followers desire?

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/3/2019
  

  'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?': The History of Frederick Douglass' Searing Independence Day Oration

  Douglass’ message — about America struggling to live up to the lofty goals it set for itself at the founding — continues to be relevant.

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  6/5/19
  

  Three Recent Books Examine Frederick Douglass' Legacy

  by Allis Radosh

  Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet by D.H. Dilbeck, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur, and Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight all offer a different interpretation of Douglass. 

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• SOURCE: Times Literary Supplement
  3/19/19
  

  The self-made man

  by Manisha Sinha

  Manisha Sinha on the long and eventful life of Frederick Douglass.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  2/15/19
  

  Video of the Week: Ibram X. Kendi on Surviving Cancer & His Anti-Racist Reading List for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam

  And the legacy of Frederick Douglass on his 201st birthday.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  2/14/19
  

  "The North Star" Launches with Keisha N. Blain as Editor-in-Chief

  Through written content, podcasts, video broadcasts, and an app, the new North Star editorial team plans to explore issues of civil rights, human rights, and social justice in America and around the world.

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• SOURCE: Simon & Schuster (Special to HNN)
  11/27/18
  

  Yale's David Blight explains why he was drawn to Frederick Douglass

  He worked on his just-published biography of Douglass for ten years.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-5-18
  

  David Blight takes to the pages of the NYT to say we should look to Frederick Douglass in this moment of crisis

  by David W. Blight

  Douglass said black people had three tools: their voice, their pen and their vote. Today all three are under threat.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-24-18
  

  Eric Foner raves about David Blight’s new biography of Frederick Douglass

  Foner begins his review with a personal note.

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• 10/28/18
  

  Would Frederick Douglass Take a Knee?

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  What the answer to that question should tell us.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7-5-18
  

  Why Frederick Douglass's struggle for justice is relevant in the Trump era

  by Ibram X Kendi

  Douglass fought against the horrors of President Andrew Johnson who, like Donald Trump, represents the same force of racist progress, of white male nationalism, of racial walls.

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• 7/1/18
  

  What Ruined Frederick Douglass as a Slave?

  by Elizabeth Stice

  It was reading, said his master. That’s worth remembering as we debate the importance of a liberal education.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-31-18
  

  Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism

  by George F. Will

  A new biography released by the Cato Institute shows this.

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• SOURCE: Chapelboro.com
  12-7-17
  

  Abolition Day Kicks Off Year-Long Campaign to Commemorate Frederick Douglass in North Carolina

  “Of the many things that he did, and his ideas are still with us."

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• SOURCE: Roll Call
  2-22-17
  

  Carla Hayden says Frederick Douglass "might have a lot to do with the fact that I am a librarian”

  She’s the new Librarian of Congress.