After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States ... “The waterways that enslaved you could also free you.” Frederick Douglass (who once worked at the Wye House, a short walk from ...

From escaped slave to worldwide advocate of abolition and social justice, Frederick Douglass's larger-than ... blacks and pronounce emancipation. After the war, he held various government positions.

Douglass embraced the Constitution in his fight for African-American rights. It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick ... entered the post–Civil War era asking only ...

Another day, another example of how the Trump Administration’s war on the excesses ... parade tribute was cut out. Frederick Douglass doesn’t deserve this after all he’s done for this ...

Douglass made history as the first black member of the congressional press galleries in 1871 as he reported for primarily black audiences on the Reconstruction Era.

It took the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the civil rights movement to convince some people that Frederick Douglass was right. But he was—and he still is. The Constitution’s protections are ...

Three years later, after a speaking tour of England ... would last into the Civil War. Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans.

WASHINGTON — Several rooms located in the House press gallery at the U.S. Capitol could be renamed to honor abolitionist Frederick ... Douglass's contributions to journalism and civil rights.