Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro Abolitionist Frederick Douglass...
Some of the later episodes will center on scientist George Washington Carver, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, musician W.C. Handy, and Frederick Douglass, greatest of all abolitionists...
...meeting got underway at about 9 a.m. in a second floor conference room in the west wing of the White House. Strobe Talbott from Yale and Steve Cohen, who had just graduated Amherst, would be two of the principle student spokesmen. Douglass Cater, a presidential advisor and one of the Administration's "liberals in residence"; Daniel Davidson, a Bundy aide; and William Bundy were among the Administration representatives...
...Mixed unions are hardly strange to Americans, going back to John Rolfe's marriage to Pocahontas in 1614. In the same era, colonial elders became so concerned about the number of marriages between white indentured women and Negroes that they began writing laws to prohibit them. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, son of a Negro mother and white father, who became the nation's Minister to Haiti in 1889, divorced a Negro and later married a white woman, explaining blithely that he "wanted to be fair to both races." Negro-white miscegenation, in fact, had a brief vogue after...
Currently, members of the John Birch Society and other right-wing organizations are complaining that the Post Office is cottoning to subversive types with a 25? stamp portraying Negro Leader Frederick Douglass, a $1 issue honoring Playwright Eugene O'Neill, an 8? Albert Einstein number, and others of Philosopher John Dewey and Revolutionary War Pamphleteer Tom Paine. Last spring the Protestant-dominated Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed suit in U.S. district court to prevent the 1967 reissue, in a slightly larger version, of last year's Christmas stamp, a Madonna and Child portrait...