Frederick Douglass stood at ... with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and recruited northern blacks for the Union Army. After the War he fought for the rights of women and African Americans ...

When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for Frederick Douglass on Saturday, it felt personal.

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains ... In the years following the end of the American Civil War, Douglass’ influence as an international champion of human rights continued to grow.

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

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

Douglass was born in 1818 as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey ... and father of the civil rights movement. Douglass selected Feb. 14 as his birthday and died on Feb. 20, adding to the ...

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

For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.

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