Frederick Douglass

National Convention of Black Men Held

A national convention of black men was held in Buffalo, NY. The black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnett called for a slave revolt and a general strike across black America. Frederick Douglass denounced the speech.

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Aug

22

1843

Langston, John Mercer (1829-1897)

John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia in 1829. Langston gained distinction as an abolitionist, politician, and attorney. Despite the prominence of his slaveowner father, Ralph Quarles, Langston took his surname from his mother, Lucy

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Nov

15

1897

A User's Guide to BlackPast.org

Welcome to BlackPast.org, the largest free and unrestricted reference center on African American and Global African History currently on the Internet. This website has over 10,000 pages reflecting the vast array of information on the history of people of African ancestry. This Users Guide is

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Slave narrative

The slave narrative is a type of literary work that is made up of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. Some six thousand former slaves from North America and the Caribbean gave accounts of

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Centum buys out Bethuel Kiplagat shares in Sidian

Each of Sidian’s share has been valued at Sh0.50 meaning that Kiplagat’s family received at least Sh4.13 million from the transaction.

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Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar (1823-1915)

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 17, 1823, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs apprenticed as a carpenter. By his early 20s he was an activist in the abolition movement, sharing platforms with Frederick Douglass and helping in the Underground Railroad. Black intellectual ferment of the era gave him

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Apr

17

1823

Martin Delany

Born: Charles Town, West VirginiaDied: 1/24/1885 Wilberforce, OhioMartin Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. He was one of the first three blacks admitted to Harvard Medical School.Awards

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John McWhorter, “Celebrate the Triumph of Ordinary Black Americans”

It is a mantra among black Americans that we are insufficiently aware of our history, that our advancement will be hobbled until we are all rooted in a sense of continuity with the past. Yet, every year we are regaled with not just a Black History Day but a Black History Month. Over four weeks in

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 4: "Resistance to Slavery"

In Episode 4, abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass use the Underground Railroad to help the enslaved find freedom in the North, while authors like Theodore Dwight Weld and Harriett Beecher Stowe fight slavery by publishing its horrors worldwide. At the beginning of the Civil

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Alexander, Archer (ca. 1810-1879)

Archer Alexander was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation around the year 1810. His likeness, in face and figure, immortalizes all American slaves on a monument to emancipation that stands in Lincoln Park in Washington, D. C. The bronze monument Emancipation, also known as the Freedmens

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Anti-Lynching Advocate

When civil rights crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931, the Chicago Defender described her as elegant, striking, and always well groomed . . . regal though somewhat intolerant and impulsive. Throughout Wells-Barnetts career as a journalist, social-political organizer and suffragist, she

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Mar

25

1931

Frederick Douglass was the only male to play a

Frederick Douglass was the only male to play a prominent role at the first Womans Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York. He seconded the womans suffrage motion introduced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Jul

26

1848

(1923) Bishop Randall Albert Carter, “Whence and Whither”

By the standards of African American history, Bishop Randall Albert Carter is a little known figure. Born in Fort Valley, Georgia on January 1, 1867, he was educated at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina and Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. An active pastor in the Colored (later

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Douglass, Frederick

Douglass, Frederick dŭg´ləs [key], c.1817–1895, American abolitionist, b. near Easton, Md. The son of a black slave, Harriet Bailey, and an unknown white father, he took the name of Douglass (from Scotts hero in The Lady of the Lake ) after his second, and successful, attempt to escape from

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Juneteenth, Not July 4th: Ways to Celebrate it this Year

I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the Year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.-Frederick Douglass

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Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia

Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and a lecturer and editor.

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Feb

20

1895

Trump Has No Election Strategy, Just 'White Grievance,' Says New York Times Reporter

And it's a very different nation this time around, Maggie Haberman insisted.

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55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1863-1865)

The 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment made up of men who wanted to enter the already full 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 54th was the first officially recognized black military unit in the United States. When

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Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey

William Loren Katz has devoted his life to researching and writing African American history. In the following account written to describe the reissue of one of his most successful books, Black Indians, he describes how he became an historian of African America and particularly the black

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Frederick Douglass attends the first Women'

Frederick Douglass attends the first Womens Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. He speaks in defense of its organizer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Jul

19

1848

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950).

In 1920, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) founded Associated Publishers. In February 1926, he announced the institution of Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.In 1976, the observance was expanded to National Afro-American History

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Feb

26

1920

U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962

Many Americans are familiar with the now iconic images of James Meredith, the black student who desegregated the University of Mississippi in October 1962, surrounded by white U.S. marshals assigned to protect him and ensure that a U.S. Supreme Court desegregation order be enforced. Few of us are

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(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”

Los Angeles newspaper owner and political activist Charlotta Bass began her career as a conservative Republican. By the 1940s, however, she moved to the political left. In 1948 she supported Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in his failed bid for the Presidency. Four years later she was

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Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti

Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti.

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Jul

1

1889

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: She Fought Against Racism and Lynching

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, known for much of her public career as Ida B. Wells, was an anti-lynching activist, a muckraking journalist, a lecturer, and a militant activist for racial justice. She lived from July 16, 1862 to March

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[Poem] Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray

E’en a moment spun

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Carter G Woodson and the Origins of Black History Month

What we now call Black History Month originated in 1926, founded by Carter G Woodson as Negro History Week. The month of February was selected in deference to Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln who were both born in that

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Dec

19

1875

Delegation urges suffrage for blacks

A delegation of blacks, led by Frederick Douglass, visited President Johnson and urged that suffrage be given to all qualified blacks.

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Jan

0

2000

Notable Early African-American Physcians

James Derham never received a medical degree, but he is considered the first African-American physician in the United

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Malawi's new president begins govt with key appointments [Morning Call]

Malawi’s newly sworn-in president Lazarus Chakwera on Monday made some ministerial and key public office appointments, including Chief Secretary to the government and Attorney

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