Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him ... He claimed Valentine’s Day after his mother, Harriet Bailey — who he saw only a handful of times before her death — once ...

In 2007, he and his mother launched the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. (Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington are both listed as directors emeriti of the organization, but Kenneth ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... He spent his early years with his grandparents and with an aunt, seeing his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven.

In 1877, Frederick Douglass spoke with Captain Thomas Auld ... “The ‘sweet cake’ my mother gave me was in the shape of a heart, with a rich, dark ring glazed upon the edge of it.

a well-known Washington physician and friend of Frederick Douglass, who built a Highland Beach home in 1896. Sewell recalls her mother telling her that the community was essentially a large family ...

A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts ... Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in February 1818. His mother died when he was young and he never ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to ... He claimed Valentine’s Day after his mother, Harriet Bailey — who he saw only a handful of times before her death — once whispered ...