... the year. The month of February is significant and recognized in African American history for the birthdays of great African American pioneers and institutions. These include the birthdays of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, NAACP and the first Pan African Congress. Historians may also recall that the first African American Senator, Hiram Revels took the oath of office in ... York, and soon became a preeminent artist. Douglas did many paintings, woodcut prints, murals, and book and magazine illustrations. Douglass, Frederick Frederick Augustus Washington ...

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... 's. During the 1850's abolitionists in the North questioned the morality of southern slavery by writing and preaching about the rights blacks were denied. Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for the first civil rights movement that occurred after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. In the 1950's and early 1960's, whites in the South ... ...

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... he could in order to go to the movies and even to plays. Baldwin knew he wanted to be a writer and always observed his environment very closely. He attended Fredrick Douglass High School in 1938 and soon transferred to DeWitt Clinton High School, which was a mostly white, Jewish school in the Bronx. While he was in school he excelled in poetry ... ...

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