Powerful, Though Silent: Frederick Douglass’ Portraits
Portraits of Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, illuminate his life and career as an abolitionist.
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Portraits of Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, illuminate his life and career as an abolitionist.
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
Galvanized by new electoral laws after the Civil War, thousands of Black men ran for public office both locally and nationally.
Josiah T. Walls was one of them.
It was never built. And thus, in our age of toppling monuments, it never came down. But in October 1868, Thomas Nast imagined a monument to racial violence that continues to haunt us.
“I thank God for making me a man, but Delany thanks Him for making him a Black man.” — Frederick Douglass
How race has shaped our memory of the Civil War and Emancipation
Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education
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