Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

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

Black History Month, celebrated annually in February, is a time to honor the significant contributions and achievements of ...

And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger." Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820.

“American heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman ... Black History Month celebrates the achievements of Black Americans and the contributions they have made to American society.