Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled ... would last into the Civil War. Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans.

In what feels like the dwindling hours of this democracy, I’m painfully aware of the erosion of civil rights gains.

In the first episode on Frederick Douglass, we explored his escape from enslavement and the beginnings of his career. Now, we pick up with him as the Civil War brews, at the time of John Brown's ...

It is believed he only saw his mother a handful of times before her ... years until the Civil War. In 1860, Douglass wrote his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an ...

Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.

Frederick Douglass saw that they “comprehended ... Congress passed the Amendment before the Civil War was even over, and it became law six months after the war’s end. “Neither slavery ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

This month would have marked the 207th birthday of civil rights icon Frederick Douglass, we'll hear how you can help ...

The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...

The Maryland Department of Transportation on Thursday unveiled a roadside plaque in honor of Frederick Douglass at the ...

The Civil War had ... and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops. Black recruiters, many of them abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet ...