Frederick Douglass

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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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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2-7-17
  

  Frederick Douglass, Refugee

  by David Blight

  Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees and beg for asylum have felt Douglass’s agony, and thought his thoughts.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2-1-17
  

  Donald Trump's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  Marking Black History Month, the president made some strange observations about Douglass and Martin Luther King, but mostly talked about himself.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11-2-15
  

  Frederick Douglass's Faith in Photography

  by Matthew Pratt Guterl

  How the former slave and abolitionist became the most photographed man in America.

• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7-19-13
  

  Steven I. Weiss: You Won't Believe What the Government Spends on Confederate Graves

  Steven I. Weiss is an award-winning journalist, and is anchor, managing editor, and executive producer of news and public-affairs programming at The Jewish Channel.On June 19, an array of top government officials gathered for the unveiling of a statue of Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century African-American man born a slave who rose to be a vice-presidential candidate. That politicians and the federal government continue to memorialize black leaders and abolitionists of that era surprises no one, but few are aware of the other side of that coin: how much Washington pays to memorialize the Confederate dead.