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.
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