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1 giorno fa · MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- In celebration of Juneteenth, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) is honoring civil rights leader, Frederick Douglass, with a stunning, immersive exhibit. The exhibit is ...
3 giorni fa · He was away from Anna Murray Douglass, his wife and a liberator in her own right, and their children, Rosetta, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., Charles Remond, and Annie Douglass. In scenes where he’s with his horse, it was important to me to show him not riding but walking with the horse, because I wanted to bring out this aspect of his relationship to animals, and to horses in particular.
1 giorno fa · Wallace’s path in bringing Frederick Douglass to stage began in 2001 with The Starry Road to Freedom, a show specifically for elementary and middle school kids. “I wrote [the show] for young people first,” he says, “to [let them] see someone who was born into limitations that they didn’t ask for — chattel slavery.”
1 giorno fa · Interviews. Frederick Douglass was a Complicated Human Being: A Conversation with Sidney Morrison. Naya Clark. June 19, 2024. Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African American leaders of the nineteenth century, known as “the great orator,” has been well documented. With writing published in the abolitionist newspaper The North ...
1 giorno fa · Douglass writes, “His first inauguration arrested the fall of the Republic, and the second was to restore it to enduring foundations.”. The fact that Lincoln’s leadership was savagely cut short was a tragedy for all who understood that the true foundation of the Republic was built upon the principle “liberty for all”.
2 giorni fa · Frederick Douglass. During the last three decades of legal slavery in America, from the early 1830s to the end of the Civil War in 1865, African American writers perfected one of the nation’s first truly indigenous genres of written literature: the North American slave narrative.
2 giorni fa · Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are put side by side and consideration is given individually to their rhetorical strategies and historical moment, what emerges is a ...
