Frederick Douglas Statue Unveiling
These clips are used as a tool to keep youth informed as to cultural, current events with The OverGround Free-Way. Next, these are discussed in Real-Talk groups. This clip involves the Frederick Douglas Stature Unveiling at the Capital. The descendant, Nettie Washington Douglass, spoke beneath the bronze statue of Douglass in Emancipation Hall on the day known as Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day, before a crowd of 600 visitors that included Congressional leaders, relatives, current and former city officials, rights activists and historians.
Ms. Douglass's nod to her ancestor's support of equality came as the Supreme Court, in chambers just across the street, was preparing to decide cases involving same-sex marriage, affirmative action and voting rights.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. joined Ms. Douglass and other leaders in hailing Douglass's rise from slavery to prominence as a writer and orator who helped pioneer the abolitionist movement. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said Douglass was the consummate self-made man, while Mr. Biden said he was one of my favorite Republicans.
He was born in horrific circumstances sanctioned by the laws passed in this very building, Mr. Biden said. But instead of condemning the nation who made him a slave, he embraced the sustaining principles and used them as a sword to try to free others. He fought, Mr. Biden added, to make this Capitol, this country live up to those ennobling words in the Constitution.
Douglass is one of four African-Americans who have been honored with a statue or a bust in the Capitol. The others are the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Sojourner Truth.
The statue of Douglass stands seven feet tall and depicts him in his 50s, leaning against a lectern while giving a speech. It is a gift from the residents of the District of Columbia, presented after Congress passed a law in September to allow the district to be represented among the 50 states in the Capitol's collection of statues.
Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot, Md., sometime around February 1818. After teaching himself to read, he escaped at age 20 and fled to New York, where he founded the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and advocated women's suffrage. In 1845, he wrote a memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a best seller and an influential abolitionist text. He spent the last 23 years of his life in Washington, where he died at age 77. He was buried in Rochester, where he lived for 25 years.
During his time in Washington, Douglass pressed President Abraham Lincoln to end slavery and endorse voting rights for black Americans. Lincoln and two other Republican presidents appointed him to political positions. He also pushed for self-governance and voting rights for the residents of Washington.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is Washington's nonvoting delegate to Congress, has taken up that mantle, repeatedly introducing legislation in Congress that would grant statehood to Washington.
Some may know of my strongly held views that D.C. residents must enjoy equal Congressional, voting and self-government rights with other Americans, she told the crowd. I must defer, however, to Mr. Douglass, whose fervor on this issue is unmatched by any I know or have heard on the subject.
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, has thrown his weight behind the latest effort. He announced that on Tuesday he had signed on as a sponsor of legislation that would grant statehood to Washington.
A Report on the 1853 Colored Convention in Rochester, N.Y.
Rev. J.W. Loguen attended the 1853 National Colored Convention in Rochester, N.Y. and participated in its deliberations. At this Convention the idea of a National Council was approved, the American Colonization Society was lambasted, and Rev. J.W.C. Pennington, Frederick Douglass, Dr. James McCune Smith, William Day and others spoke eloquently.
This reenactment is set in Syracuse as Loguen reports back to his constituents and challenges them to support the resolutions passed at the convention.
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Statue of female civil rights icons to be erected in NY's Central Park
New York's Central Park is getting real when it comes to women who made their mark on history. The city's Public Design Commission approved a Central Park monument on Monday that will feature - for the first time - real women from history, and pay tribute to civil rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth. The monument to the three women, who were all New Yorkers, is to be designed by world renowned artist Meredith Bergmann, and dedicated next August in time for the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States. New York's Public Design Commission approved a statue to women's rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony for Central Park on Monday. The design of the statue is show above The monument to the three women who were all New Yorkers was designed by world renowned artist Meredith Bergmann (pictured), and dedicated next August in time for the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States 'My hope is that all people, but especially young people, will be inspired by this image of women of different races, different religious backgrounds and different economic status working together to change the world,' Bergmann (pictured) said after Monday's voteThe sculpture will break what some have dubbed the 'bronze ceiling' in the 166-year-old urban oasis. Final approval came from the Public Design Commission, an agency that reviews artworks on city-owned property.'This statue conveys the power of women working together to bring about revolutionary change in our society,' said Pam Elam, president of the Monumental Women's Statue Fund, a nonprofit of advocates, historians and community leaders including Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. The design was chosen from 91 competing submissions, reports the Associated Press. About $1.5 million was privately raised to create and maintain the new monument and for an associated educational program.'My hope is that all people, but especially young people, will be inspired by this image of women of different races, different religious backgrounds and different economic status working together to change the world,' Bergmann said after the vote.Central Park already has almost two dozen statues honoring men who had an impact on history, including Beethoven, Christopher Columbus, and even Cuban poet and national hero Jose Marti, as well as a few lesser known names like Fitz-Greene Halleck. Halleck was probably 'a poet you've never heard of, for good reason,' wrote the Daily News in an editorial in support of the statue honoring Anthony, Cady Stanton and Truth, all New Yorkers.Until now, there hasn't been a single monument in the park honoring women who made their mark on history. There are statues of fictional, female characters, including Mother Goose and Alice in Wonderland. There's even Romeo's Juliet, which comes with a version of him planting a smooch on her.There's no man necessary to share the limelight w
David Blight on Frederick Douglass, with James Oakes, April 15, 2019
David Blight on Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, with James Oakes, April 15, 2019, Leon Levy Center for Biography, the Graduate Center, CUNY
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From Slave to Bestselling Author and Advisor to Presidents- The Great Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner in history
David Blight’s Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom sheds new light on Douglass (c. 1818–1895), particularly the last 30 years of his life, thanks to a trove of letters, manuscripts, and scrapbooks in a private collection that no other historian previously used in any full-length biography. Blight writes that the collection, owned by Walter O. Evans of Savannah, GA, “makes possible many new insights into the final third of Douglass’s life. The younger Douglass—the heroic escaped slave and emerging abolitionist—is better known, in part because of the author’s masterful first two autobiographies. The older Douglass, from Reconstruction to the end of his life in 1895, has never been so accessible or rendered so fascinating and complicated as in the Evans collection.” In this lecture held on June 2, 2019, in conjunction with the exhibition In the Library: Frederick Douglass Family Materials from the Walter O. Evans Collection, Blight shares how this material revealed the full extent of Douglass’s complex personal life. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2019, this biography masterfully weaves together the more popularly known story of Douglass’s life of public activism with his perhaps lesser-known private life to paint a complete portrait of the great American hero.
Frederick Douglass | Wikipedia audio article
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Frederick Douglass
00:02:03 1 Life as a slave
00:06:46 2 From slavery to freedom
00:10:10 3 Abolitionist and preacher
00:13:40 3.1 Autobiography
00:14:53 3.2 Travels to Ireland and Great Britain
00:17:59 3.3 Return to the United States
00:20:07 3.4 Women's rights
00:23:43 3.5 Douglass refines his ideology
00:26:12 3.5.1 Photography
00:26:54 4 Religious views
00:32:38 5 Civil War years
00:32:48 5.1 Before the Civil War
00:33:15 5.2 Fight for emancipation and suffrage
00:35:37 5.3 After Lincoln's death
00:37:21 6 Reconstruction era
00:41:39 7 Family life
00:43:18 8 Final years in Washington, D.C.
00:47:23 9 Death
00:48:30 10 Legacy and honors
00:54:13 11 In arts and literature
00:57:04 12 Works
00:57:13 12.1 Writings
00:58:06 12.2 Speeches
00:58:36 13 See also
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto No Union With Slaveholders, criticized Douglass' willingness to dialogue with slave owners, he famously replied: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography...
Frederick Douglass, ex-slave turned leading abolitionist, was the most photographed American of the 19th century. Now, as a result of research by John Stauffer, Douglass has emerged as a leading pioneer in photography, both as a stately subject and as a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of this early art form. A book signing follows the program.
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The Founders and Slavery | America's Most Pressing Concern
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How Did Women Get The Right To Vote | Conversations with Jim Zirin
Fearful of democracy, the founders of our country did their utmost to filter the new government from the people. State legislators elected the Senators. Electors chose the president. Women had no right to vote, only achieving the franchise in 1920 with a constitutional amendment.
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