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Civil Rights Act

Frederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights

February 21, 2017 By Danielle Sigler

A portrait of Frederick Douglass from the frontispiece of My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855).

February 20, 2017, marks the 122nd anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s death. Douglass (1818–1895), an abolitionist and activist for civil rights, was a gifted writer and orator. [Read more…] about Frederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights

Filed Under: archive, Authors Tagged With: abolition, abolitionist, African American History Month, African-American, biography, Black History Month, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Danielle Brune Sigler, Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Slave Act, My Bondage and My Freedom, prejudice, slavery, Supreme Court

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