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8 unusual facts about Frederick Douglass


Boyds, Maryland

It is a small, one room school house, containing a small number of desks, a blackboard, and an authentic potbelly stove, as well as a framed picture of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Charles Street Meeting House

In the years before the American Civil War, it was a stronghold of the anti-slavery movement, and was the site of notable speeches from such anti-slavery activists as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth.

Frederick Douglas

Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

The Frederick Douglass Edition, which is preparing a critical edition of the writings of the 19th century journalist, orator, abolitionist, and African-American leader.

Maryland Route 303

The state highway also passes very close to the birthplace of Frederick Douglass.

Maryland Route 328

A short distance east of Matthews, the state highway crosses Tuckahoe Creek on a bridge dedicated to Frederick Douglass.

Prominent Americans series

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Somersett's Case

These lawyers included Francis Hargrave, a young lawyer who made his reputation with this, his first case, and the famous Irish lawyer and orator John Philpott Curran whose lines in defence of Somersett were often quoted by American abolitionists (such as Frederick Douglass).


Charles Wilbert White

White's best known work is The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy, a mural at Hampton University depicting a number of notable blacks including Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Peter Salem, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Marian Anderson.

Corinne Dixon Taylor

They first moved to Boston, but returned to Washington, D.C. soon after and moved into Frederick Douglass' old house, where Corinne's father-in-law was the caretaker.

Creole case

In 1852 the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass published a fictionalized version of the Creole revolt featuring Washington, called "The Heroic Slave."

Elmer P. Martin Jr.

Martin and his wife Joanne opened the museum on July 9, 1983, with only four wax figures: Frederick Douglass, Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Tubman, and Nat Turner.

Jamal Igle

Igle has worked in books ranging from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the all-ages action miniseries Race Against Time as well as fill-in issues in mainstream titles such as Green Lantern, G.I. Joe, Martian Manhunter and Supergirl.

L.S. Alexander Gumby

The scrapbooks contain autographed photos, stories and letters from such notable performers as Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Ethel Waters, and letters and autographs from Black historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Father Divine, W.E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey.

Nathan Francis Mossell

In 1895, he helped found the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in West Philadelphia, serving as its chief-of-staff and medical director until his retirement in 1933.

He helped found the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in West Philadelphia in 1895, which he led as chief-of-staff and medical director until he retired in 1933.

North Shore, Staten Island

Frederick Douglass spoke at the Fountain Hotel; Anna Leonowens of "The King and I" fame, owned a school at the corner of Richmond Terrace and Tompkins Court; Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, railway tycoon and patriarch of the Vanderbilt family, was born in the area in 1797.

Philip A. Payton, Jr.

The buildings were renamed after prominent blacks in America: Crispus Attucks, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington.

Universal Preservation Hall

Originally constructed for the Methodist church to host their annual regional meeting – the Hall has hosted such luminaries as William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Senator Edgar T. Brackett and President William Howard Taft amongst others.


see also

Anamnocht

Frederick Douglass and the White Negro Frederick Douglass agus na Negroes Bana, Frederick Douglass, the "Martin Luther King" of the 19th century, escaped from slavery in the US and fled to Ireland to seek refuge during the Irish famine.

Banneker-Douglass Museum

The contributions of famous African American Maryland residents are highlighted, including Kunta Kinte, Benjamin Banneker, James Pennington, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Matthew Henson and Thurgood Marshall.

Heart of America Foundation

Angela has served as a volunteer with organizations such as the National Capital Area Foundation of the March of Dimes, WETA-TV, the Caring Institute, the Frederick Douglass Museum, and the Hall of Fame for Caring Americans.

Stephan Dweck

Dweck and Ivey lived in the Frederick Douglass Houses housing project in Manhattan.

Talented 10th

From Talented Tenth and Preaching With Sacred Fire, Sho Baraka delved into books such as The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, along with various works by authors such as Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, August Wilson, and C. S. Lewis.

William Greaves

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T.Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?, The Deep North, and Ida B. Wells: An American Odyssey, which was narrated by Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison.