Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

A celebration of Frederick Douglass comes as many worry Trump will turn back the clock on diversity and inclusion ...

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

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a leading spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and for racial ...

Sam Bradley, executive director of the Pan African History Museum USA, recites Frederick Douglass' famed Fourth of July ...

In 1894, at Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass delivered the last great speech of his career, titled “The Lessons of the Hour.” “Strange ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. We urge all Americans to consider the ...

Frederick Douglass ... are not enjoyed in common,” he said in a speech delivered on July 5, 1852, reflecting on the July 4 holiday. But, Douglass argued, the blessings enjoyed by Americans ...