by lindaoppenheim | Sep 8, 2018 | Article
That Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both abolitionist leaders, were born a few miles apart on the Maryland Eastern Shore is not surprising. The Washington Post article examines the elements that made this geographic region a wellspring of freedom for enslaved...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 3, 2016 | Opinion
David Brooks comments on Frederick Douglass’s strategic use of photographic portraiture to breakthrough common stereotypes. “Douglass was redrawing people’s unconscious mental maps. He was erasing old associations about blackness and replacing them with...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 18, 2015 | Events
The new North Star movie stars former Philadelphia Eagle Jeremiah Trotter as Benjamin “Big Ben” Jones. It will be screened in Newtown, Pennsylvania now through September 24th. If there are some New Jersey dates, we will post them here, but Newtown...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 4, 2015 | Documents, Speech
On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass was invited to speak in commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,...
