Others, including Frederick Douglass ... Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to end slavery. Throughout this time, northern black ...

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white ... and Douglass that, despite the efforts of others such as Harriet Beecher Stowe to reconcile the two, would last into the Civil War. Frederick ...

It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick ... Douglass entered the post–Civil War era asking only that blacks at last be left to fend for themselves, he knew that “it is ...

After the war ended in 1865, eighteen black soldiers returned to Talbot County—including Charles and Benjamin Demby, relatives of the man whose murder Frederick Douglass described. In 1867 ...

The one-man show 'Frederick Douglass Now' will play May 1-4 at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center's Te Ata Theater as part of ...

(This column was fist printed in the Tallahassee Democrat on Jan. 30, 2011 The first time John Anderson played the role of Frederick ... well-known black figures of the Civil War: Douglass ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to American presidents and civil rights icons. It made history again this year: Thanks to a lawsuit ...