The National Portrait Gallery might seem an unusual venue for an exhibition about Frederick Douglass, particularly since what we see in portraits—the shade of his skin, his shock of hair ...

click image for close-up By the time this photograph of Frederick Douglass was taken, slavery in the United States had been abolished. After the Civil War Douglass would to fight for the rights of ...

Kenneth Morris is the great-great-great-grandson of the heralded abolitionist and helped compile an illustrated biography of his ancestor. (Credit: Drew Gardner) (03:09) Explore Subscribe ...

The portraits were eventually moved to the Rochester Contemporary Art Center due to acts of vandalism. "Painting images of ...

The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

The Niles District Library has teamed up with the Niles History Center to host "The Frederick Douglass: Advocate for Equality Exhibit", which will be on display from now through Oct. 4.

The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO ... and The Studio Museum of Harlem. In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was hung in the National Portrait Gallery in ...

That in turn is redefining the very idea of what American fashion means in ways that have little to do with what is happening ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Broadside for "Men of Color" Recruitment National Museum of African American History and Culture Illustrated portrait of Frederick Douglass ...

Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century, sitting for more portraits than even Abraham Lincoln. Douglass intentionally sought out the cameras, believing that photography was an ...

Morrison debuts with a well-rounded portrait of abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) that focuses on his early life in slavery and the support he received from his wife upon entering the ...