>> this is the image of a young frederick douglass very well known 19th century abolitionist. i'm very famous for his that has become to be known as one of the most formative and important in the narratives of slavery and freedom in the united states. this image is particularly important because douglas himself gave a series of lectures that reflected on the meaning of photography at its earliest moments and he himself was fond of the technology that he sat fairly regularly over the course of a very long career and this is one of those early portraits of the young hero like, strong, hard featured frederick douglass. >> why did he write an essay about photography clicks >> he wrote two or three essays right around the end of the civil war they were in fact speeches at first that reflected his enthusiasm for this new technology that was cheaper and accessible to people without means. they were swift in the reproduction and many could be made and he thought that it was a possibility for showing the nation with the free men and women could look like, to help the nation in fact the

>> come most famous of all the fugitives was frederick douglass who escaped in 1838 andy in 1841 was surged to give a speech in nantucket where all the massachusetts antislavery society was meeting, all these people were spellbound by frederick douglass's speech and he was very much incorporated into the anti slavery movement but with regard to fugitives there has been a good bit of misunderstanding. i go along with the conclusion of many historians that number of fugitives was never large enough to endanger the institution in any way even though in the house itself fugitive slaves were running away and in the 1850s well over 50,000 slaves ran away from their own ears but didn't go far. and in the free north bite 1860 there were 45,000 -- fugitives living in the north but wasn't real system but ideologically it was a enormous. since the u.s. constitution tried to evolve they avoided using the word slave. and always prevent northern states, prevent them from giving shelter to slaves from the south. in 1793, the fugitive slave law and only 288 slaves returned to slavery by 1860. someth

one was frederick douglass and the other was the colonel of the army and everything and as i said, above they railed against victorian hypocrisy. as they were free lovers which would mean anything from just wanting to reform these horrible divorce laws to have things and choice believe in and out of someone you wanted to have mary and whether you have children and that was considered impossible in those days and finally, adulterous affair, they just blasted. i know, it is so bad. they blasted him in print and accuse the man of having raped a virgin in their weekly and they got thrown into prison by obscenities for a man named comstock who was a horrible man. anthony comstock was a man whose ossian everywhere. medical books, science in medical books, we are talking a really sick guy, but he did great damage because he came famous, until the middle of the 1920s, the comstock law was very repressive about first amendment, repressive about the best books and poetry. george bernard shaw, everything and he was against contraception and drove margaret sanger out of the country. he was a very vi

i had read something about her but not the whole thing about frederick douglass. then i read about her sister, which had been pretty much eclipsed in all the books about victoria, and decided to do a dual biography of these symbiotic, fascinating, and outrageous women in american history. i decided i could never make up -- >> your first line in chapter one, victoria and tennie's father -- >> they grew up in this ridiculously dickenssian world of debauchery. this family was nothing you could believe. the father was sort of at the head of it all. everything he did was a scam. at one point, the story went that he was making counterfeit money. when the sheriff came, he put the money in his mouth and swallowed the evidence. he was always doing something, painting horses black and selling them before the rain came and got out of town. these two women grew up with nothing but shyster tricks and not being real people. when she was 11 years old, the youngest, tennie was put to work as a fake fortuneteller and sat in a dirty old hotel for 13 hours a day, selling fortunes an

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frederick douglass. m.g. lord is a journalist, cultural critic and highly regarded teacher in this school's masters professional writing program. for many years she was a syndicated political cartoonist and columnists based at newsday and is a regula contributor to "the new york times" -- regular contributor to "the new york times" book review. she is the author of astroturf: the private life of rocket science, a family memoir about cold war aerospace culture. but she became a true literary celebtive after she wrote the unauthorized biography of a real doll. [laughter] which examines how a fantastically sexual doll that was inspired by a jokey, erotic knickknack held to hold a place of honor and meaning in the childhoods of so many american girls. she argues that barbie was invented by women to teach girls, for better or worse, what was expected of them. and now she has turned her critic's gaze to another curvy american icon in her new book, "the accidental feminist: how elizabeth taylor raised our consciousn

they said frederick douglass had a correct and moral position. everybody would say that is the right and correct thing to do i'm not particularly swayed by it. >> you think the moral case is compelling enough here that whatever practicable aspects -- >> i think we can do what we want to do that's what i think. i think if we decide a world in which we decide -- >> what does that look like, right? >> the first step is outlined in the article is support john conyers bill hr 40 to study, to study enslavement and effects to of the legacy of enslavement and see what might possibly be there should we find something wrong. and a lot of people get frustrated with that they want me to have an outline. >> yeah. yeah. >> exactly. but we haven't even studied it. you got to get your hands around the actual problem. i did what i could. i spent two years looking at this and tried to do the best that i could. but we need an actual serious study. i mean this is a huge thing. >> yes. >> i mean, to calculate not just enslavement but to calculate housing discriminati

frederick douglass being the most prominent of them, but quite a few others, henry hiland garnet, henry brown, many others. and the abolitionists made a big, you know, made -- devoted a lot of attention to talking about fugitive slaves and publicizing what happened to fugitive slaves. did maroons play a part in the sort of abolitionist consciousness? i mean, did abolitionists talk about maroons? did they use them as evidence of the evils of slavery, or did they tend to ignore them? >> they tended to ignore them. and that, to me, was kind of interesting and kind of shocking as well. well, maybe not that shocking, actually. when they mentioned maroons, it was generally to portray them as lost souls living in the wilderness with wild beasts and, you know, kind of a -- [inaudible] and the idea was to show the evil of slavery. that people had to live like this to escape, to escape enslavement. at the same time, you know, the idea of black people being -- [inaudible] was not exactly what the abolitionists were about. so a need from the maroons, let's put it that way. and so they didn't, you k

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breepriebus wants us to he's changed things, but he doesn't understand you can't be the party of frederick douglass and phil robertson. you can't be the party of abraham lincoln and donald trump, the birther in chief. when push comes to shove, when they have to chose, they choose phil robertson. they put him on stage as the keynote. >> kicking off their leadership conference. >> this is leadership. this isn't entertainment. >> he wasn't doing entertainment night. he was the keynote speaker. >> i was flabbergasted. i thought he would show up to shake some hands. >> entertainment at the dinner or something. >> right. >> as they quarrelled as republicans, the seems like the only thing they can rally behind is attacking president obama. we're seeing at this event really in full force. look at this. >> at this rate that we're going, with this commander in chief, next thing you know, our soldiers are going to have to exchange their fatigues for mom jeans. >> we're up against evil. like i have never seen before in my life. i have never -- let me put it this way. in the last five or six years, i'm sitting

examples of integrity honesty and decency in virtue you will see the black freedom movement frederick douglasssojourner choose -- sojourner truth curtis mayfield's john coltrane. unbelievably honest integrity. if you want to keep track of integrity keep track of the best in the country. they are going through some hell and they still are. they been hated and intense ways but they still have a smile on their face. that's also what he had in mind. that's another reason why you don't want to use the effects of the difference. a world with no jobs. no rhythm and blues. no emotions no main ingredient no whispers. i would have been insane a long time ago so the positive effects that these people who are questing forward in achieving that integrity and it's open to everybody and i think that's a positive. brother you have been very patient. >> first of all i have the different enunciation. i spent 45 years of my life in poland but for me it's an unknown fact. we have different problems. now my question is what do you think would be most important factor to get rid of racism not only here but all worl

if you want to see the greatest examples of decency and virtue, read the book of frederick douglass, sojourner truth, john cole train, curtis mayfield. unbelievable integrity in the face of reports, deception. when that same black people have the monopoly on this, but if you want to keep track of integrity, they are going through some holiday still love it. been hated in intent to raise, but they still got a smile on their face. that is also what he had in mind. don't look at the positive effects of the different. no rhythm and blues. no emotions, no main ingredient. within a long time ago luther. so the positive effect that these people who are requesting for that integrity open to everybody. but brother, you have been very patient. >> first of all, you're recognized a different if i education you mean propositional knowledge. living together, which are segregated world make very difficult. if you live with a kinder person representing everyday life, doing things together, it is very hard. not not impossible because i just described something like the situation that many of those 59

examples of integrity honesty and decency in virtue you will see the black freedom movement frederick douglasssojourner choose -- sojourner truth curtis mayfield's john coltrane. unbelievably honest integrity. if you want to keep track of integrity keep track of the best in the country. they are going through some hell and they still are. they been hated and intense ways but they still have a smile on their face. that's also what he had in mind. that's another reason why you don't want to use the effects of the difference. a world with no jobs. no rhythm and blues. no emotions no main ingredient no whispers. i would have been insane a long time ago so the positive effects that these people who are questing forward in achieving that integrity and it's open to everybody and i think that's a positive. brother you have been very patient. >> first of all i have the different enunciation. i spent 45 years of my life in poland but for me it's an unknown fact. we have different problems. now my question is what do you think would be most important factor to get rid of racism not only here but all worl

you probably are also interested to know frederick douglass was the one gentleman invited to speak at that convention on suffrage. and then of course the suffragists who led the fight. usan b. anthony, elizabeth statan, anne dallas dudley, strong republican women. it is time for that story to be told. the ratification of the 19th amendment with women receiving the right to vote took place in nashville, tennessee, my state at our state capital where i had the opportunity and the speaker has also had the opportunity to serve. we know that it is important to tell that story of what women have done in the cause of freedom. that is why we have come together to agree on the structure, to work to put a commission in place that will do the necessary due diligence, that will put the safeguards in place and will guarantee that in perpetuity, forever there will not be federal taxpayer money that is spent on this. you know, madam speaker, working to highlight what women have accomplished is a worthy goal, and it is something that in a bipartisan manner we should be able to come together and to ag

after his military service, bill's father arranged an interview for him to teach at frederick douglass high school in elm city, north carolina. the school needed a new music teacher and bill was a perfect fit. as a teacher, bill was really disheartened by the students' lack of cultural exposure. so bill made sure to expose them to the arts and other communities and to opportunities beyond their town. due to his work and commitment, bill was eventually promoted to assistant principal before deciding to pursue a masters in education at east carolina university. after completing graduate school, bill attended the principal's executive program at the university of north carolina, which led to being named -- to him being named principal of the newly integrated elm city high school. after the county's school city merged, bill became principal of elm city middle school and became superintendent of schools for personnel, becoming the first frean in the county to hold that -- african-american in the county to hold that position. throughout the course of his long life, bill still manages to perf

frederick douglass the importance of autobiography of a memoir because mr. douglas used the first person singular to talk about the third person about we, about us. he was able to say i stood on the burning deck. i stood on the slave ship ocean. i broke my back. i took the lash. meaning that i is a human being can speak for human beings. and when i really began working on caged bird at first i thought i would write a book about what it was like to grow up as a black girl. and i found it was so difficult to write it well that i had better in large my reason. so i chose to write it. it was so difficult i thought i had better get somebody else in here so i decided to write it for white girls. [laughter] and then i thought i better get it figured them out so i decided to write it for wide voice and abrasions and spanish speaking in native american and allie utes because it's different -- difficult to grow. most people don't. of. [laughter] they don't. they get older. they find parking spaces and say now i'm grown up. but that's not true. to grow up as difficult

the greatest examples of integrity, honesty, decency and virtue, the black freedom movement, frederick douglass, martin king, curtis mayfield. unbelievable integrity, honesty, virtue in the face of brute force, deception. black people don't have a monopoly on the special to keep track of integrity, keep track on the best negroes in the country. because they're going through some hell and they still love it. they been handed in intense ways and they still have a smile on the face and they love it. that's also what he had in mind. that's another reason we don't want to lose the positive effect of the difference. a world with no jazz, no rhythm and blues, no emotions, no main ingredient, no whispers. i would've been in saint a long time ago without luther, you know? so the positive effects that these people who are never achieving that integrity, and it's open to everybody. but brother, you've been very patient. >> first of all, you recognize i have different pronunciation. i spent 45 years of my life in poland, communist country. only racist was totally unknown factor. we had different problems.