Public officials are set to unveil the new Frederick Douglass Observatory at the Rochester airport on Tuesday.

Frederick Douglass and the history of Black representation in photography honored in new Wadsworth exhibit Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook ...

Just in terms of his fame and popularity, Douglass was like the LeBron James of his day,” he says. Douglass’s significance “is in a combination of the popularity, the accuracy and detail of a ...

Frederick Douglass’s lasting impact and modern relevance. ... Douglass used photography as a weapon against caricatures, sitting for 160 portraits that dared viewers to deny his humanity.

George Kendall Warren, “Frederick Douglass” (1879), albumen print on Cabinet Card at The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Hartford, Connecticut (image courtesy the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum ...

A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery examines how Frederick Douglass carefully crafted his image with speeches, writing and photographs.

Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was a Black man who came into the world enslaved in Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, around February 1818.

“One Life: Frederick Douglass,” a new exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, explores the life and legacy of one of the 19th century’s most influential global writers, ...

Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled ...

Portrait of Frederick Douglass from frontispiece and title page of his book "My Bondage and My Freedom," published in 1856, 1856. From the New York Public Library.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey later changed his name to Frederick Douglass to elude capture. He escaped bondage, arriving in Newport in 1838. Historian Lee Blake explains why he could not ...