WASHINGTON – When Frederick Douglass got home on the evening of Feb. 20, 1895, he was energized. A voluble storyteller prone to imitating his characters, the great man walked through the double doors at Cedar Hill, his elegant hilltop home ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than a century after his death, Frederick Douglass and July 4 remain profoundly intertwined. Douglass was one of the greatest public speakers of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond ...
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Read More »The city of Rochester and the Rochester Public Library are sponsoring several events at the Central Library and the Frederick Douglass Community Library in honor of Frederick Douglass , who was born 200 years ago in February 1818. Douglass chose ...
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Read More »A newly discovered photograph of 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass that was found in a scrapbook is now on display in Rochester. The black-and-white portrait was unveiled Thursday during a news conference at Rochester City Hall, where the photo is on ...
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