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October 4. (2020-10-04) –. November 15, 2020. (2020-11-15) The Good Lord Bird is a 2020 American historical drama television miniseries, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by James McBride. Focusing on John Brown 's attack on American slavery, the series was created and executive produced by Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard.
suffragist. author. editor. diplomat. Signature. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Release. February 17, 2021. (2021-02-17) Amend: The Fight for America is a 2021 docuseries starring Will Smith, Bryan Stevenson and Larry Wilmore. It covers the legacy of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution and explores the history of discrimination and activism for equality in the United States. [1][2]
English. Frederick Douglass and the White Negro is a 2008 documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his anti-slavery lecture tour in Ireland in 1845 while avoiding capture as a fugitive in the United States. [1][2] It is often shown on national television in the U.S. [2]
The sculpture of Douglass — who lived part of his life in New Bedford and Lynn after escaping slavery in Maryland — is the first bust depicting a person of color in a permanent place in the ...
973.8092 B. LC Class. E449.D75 B557 2018. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom is a 2018 biography of African American abolitionist, writer, and orator Frederick Douglass, written by historian David W. Blight and published by Simon & Schuster. It won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History. [4][5]
Douglass forced the nation to come face to face with the “immeasurable distance” that separated free whites and enslaved Black people 76 years after the country’s independence, nearly 11 ...
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts ...