He also announced that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals during the Jim ...

The bronze statue of the teenage civil rights heroine will replace a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the state ...

American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick ... Douglass went to Baltimore as an enslaved laborer for the Auld family. Sophia Auld started teaching him letters until ...

As a result, Americans have very specific ideas about Lincoln as the serious, dignified and solemn figure preserved in statues ... Earl Darrington as Frederick Douglass, left, and Ivan Hernandez ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The striking Emancipation ... Frederick Douglass gave the keynote address, omitting reference to the monument’s imagery. Five days later, he critiqued the design in a letter ...

the country’s founding documents and figures like Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass. The requirements would apply to both public and private schools. In grades one through six ...

In a rather sheepish cover letter, he confided that he had checked ... It is little wonder, then that Frederick Douglass, speaking on the Fifth of July in 1852 to the Rochester, New York Ladies ...

Why do I take issue with a statue of the “Great Emancipator”? It ignores our actual past and the very people living in Salem before and after emancipation who were working to end slavery and ...

While many historians and biographers have traced the evolution of Lincoln’s sentiments about emancipation and ... On August 10, 1863, Frederick Douglass met with Lincoln and urged him to ...

The UW Madison exhibit, titled “re:mancipation,” examines “Emancipation ... nation’s freedoms. As Frederick Douglass noted in his 1876 letter criticizing the statue, the figure of ...

Last week, Norton proposed a bill that would remove the Emancipation Memorial from ... in his keynote address at the unveiling of the statue, Frederick Douglass pointedly did not praise the ...

Frederick Douglass took exception to the so-called Emancipation statue, which stood in Boston ... knees rising up beside the president. In a letter published in the National Republican in ...