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Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments still resonate with many today. Classrooms still feel his influence. His insistence that literacy fuels liberation shapes fights against unequal schools.
The list of Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments is astonishing—respected orator, famous writer, abolitionist, civil rights leader, presidential appointee—and even more so when you consider ...
Frederick Douglass continues to be an irresistible ... painting a portrait of Douglass that explains his monumental public achievements as well and his personal charms and shortcomings.
The new biography especially expands our knowledge ... knew that Douglass had been dead for 122 years. Trump said: “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job ...
Frederick Douglass was a fierce critic of America, a radical patriot and an abolitionist who was formerly enslaved. A new biography sheds light on the lesser-known corners of Douglass' life.
Douglass (whose real name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey ... actual facts as may be expected in impassioned or heroic biography. Once Douglass is safe in New Bedford, Mass., ...
David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traced Douglass' path from slavery to abolitionist and inspired HBO's documentary, Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches. Originally broadcast in 2018.
It was colorized and used as the cover image of David W. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” published by Simon & Shuster in 2018.