Frederick Douglass Observatory Unveiled at Rochester Airport

Frederick Douglass Observatory unveiled at Rochester airport

The new observatory features engaging exhibits honoring Douglass' life and his impact on the Rochester region and beyond.

‘Frederick Douglass’ by Richard B. Moore from The Crisis. Vol. 46 No. 2. February, 1939.

Veteran of the African Blood Brotherhood, Socialist and Communist Parties, Richard B. Moore, writing for the N.A.A.C.P.’s Crisis magazine, with a biography of Douglass who reemerged in the mid-1930s as an important and studied figure. Moore would be expelled from the Communist Party in 1942 for his insistence on retaining Black demands in face of […]

Frederick Douglass’ 1852 Speech on Enslavement - Utica Phoenix

Frederick Douglass gave speeches in several places in Peterboro NY, but his speech in Rochester NY at Corinthian Hall on July 5 th , 1852 is, perhaps, his most famous. The Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society asked Douglass to present a speech on the Fourth of July to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence seventy years earlier. Douglass refused to speak on July 4th, but agreed to do so the next day, stating “This Fourth of…