The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) reintroduces a renaming resolution Friday — Frederick Douglass ...

The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W St., SE in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, ...

Former state senator R.L. Douglass had the home built in Fallon back in the early 1900's. Former state senator R.L. Douglass had the home built in Fallon back in the early 1900's for his bride, but ...

HISTORY. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS WERE SAFE PLACES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. PEOPLE DIDN’T CARE WHAT COLOR YOU WERE. YOU COULD GET A JOB ON A WHALING SHIP. THE WHALING CITY ...

Barbara A. Yocum took 315 paint samples from throughout the Frederick Douglass house, carefully using a No. 18 blade in an X-Acto knife. The paint was studied under a microscope with tungsten light, ...

With nearly $1 million in fresh funds, the National Park Service plans to begin repairing the Frederick Douglass house in Anacostia next year, the site's manager said. An aging ventilation system and ...

That house right there is where Frederick Douglass lived when he escaped from slavery. He slipped uh like so many did uh into New Bedford by way of both of the so-called Maritime Underground Railroad ...

In his day, Frederick Douglass was known as one of the world’s most powerful orators, a piercing voice of conscience in the slave debate. On April 8, 1870, five years after the Civil War settled that ...

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