Book/Printed Material Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held at the] Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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Image 1 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … A Lecture on Our National Capital by Frederick Douglass ANACOSTIA NEIGHBORHOOD MUSEUM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 2 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held …- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 3 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … A Lecture on Our vy ANACOSTIA NEIGHBORHOOD MUSEUM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Published by the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON 1978- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 4 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Editorial Note Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The original typescript of Douglasss speech is in the Douglass Douglass Frederick 18171895 Collecrion in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 5 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Contents Page Opening Statement by James Joseph 4 Foreword by John R Kinard 5 Introduction by Benjamin Quarles 8 A Lecture on Our National Capital by Frederick Douglass 11 Appendix A Paragraphs…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 6 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Opening Statement This small book pays in large measure an eloquent tribute to one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century a man whose powerful voice still rings with lessons…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 7 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Foreword All signs indicate that the national capital will ultimately become one of the most desirable cities for residence in the world Written more than one hundred years ago these words are…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 8 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … seasons Douglass still illuminates our lives and remains a constant shining light in our midst As expressed by Dr Booker T Washington in the introduction to his biography Frederick Douglass published in…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 9 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … others with great timidity are caught unawares unprepared and afraid It is hoped that this speech which is as timely in 1978 as when delivered in 1877 will inspire Washingtonians to study…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 10 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Introduction Washington is a great city the capital of a great nation and I think it will laugh at the ridiculous attempt to rouse it to a point of furious hostility to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 11 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … white line Douglass acknowledges that by 1877 the District had become one of the most enlightened and liberal cities in the nation as far as blacks were concerned If Douglas could inveigh…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 12 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held …- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 13 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … A Lecture on Our National Capital i i U___ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN It is not from any sense of my superior knowledge of men and things at the National Capital or from…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 14 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … and generation and one who had made the friends of civil and religious liberty immensely his debtor but sublime and glorious as was the theme it was impossible for the speaker to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 15 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … John Caldwell Calhoun Senator from Daniel Webster statesman from New South Carolina Courtesy of the England Courtesy of the National National Portrait Gallery Portrait Gallery The old repulsive marketplaces so long a…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 16 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … in all directions New lines of them have been built old ones extended and now splendid chariots have been added to the conveniences of the people in getting from one part of…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 17 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … grassy laws and shrubbery around them with more than emerald beauty Even the lands surrounding that longneglected and stillunfinished monument erected to the memory of George Washington have been in the last…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 18 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Lincoln Park located on Massachusetts Avenue NE between Eleventhand Thirteenth Streets was developed around 1870 In 1876 Frederick Douglass spoke at the unveiling of the statue in the center of the parka…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 19 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … the world The sentiment which would improve beautify and exalt the city of Washington is neither weak unwise nor transient It is a natural and necessary outgrowth of a healthy manly and…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 20 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … country is clearly in the wrong But whatever may be the cant and extravagance which gains currency under the garb of patriotism the sentiment itself is pure natural and noble as real…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 21 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … American citizen worthy of the name feels himself largely identified with the capital of his nation He cannot separate himself from her He is proud of all which may cover her name…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 22 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … the national flag itself as the StarSpangled Banner with not one star missing or dimmed a glorious symbol of civil and religious liberty expressive of the best ideas and institutions yet devised…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 23 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … be as a city set upon a hill a source of light health and beauty to all who come within its golden radiance Such would seem to be the general rule and…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 24 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Until the war it neither tolerated freedom of speech nor of the press Slavery was its idol and like all idol worshippers its people howled with rage when this ugly idol was…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 25 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … the lash and sting of the most insolent of human tongues or accept a challenge to Bladensburg Md and be shot at by a trained duelist If for any reason however noble…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 26 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … was a miserable sham Its industry was the wielding of the lash its politeness polished iniquity its respect for the rights of man was bounded by the white line its courage was…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 27 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … it in the field with his sword It stood between President Johnson and deserved impeachment and cheered him on in his ministry of disorganization It smiled upon the cowardly and murderous assault…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 28 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … culture and refinement They had undisputed possession of Washington during the entire existence of the National Capital up to the war to suppress rebellion They lived in fine houses rode in fine…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 29 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … carries it as the knights and squires of the olden times wore their swords more for ornament than for use more for pride than for profit His hat is apt to be…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 30 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … these people is not that they themselves have by this change fallen lower in the scale of society but that the Negro has risen higher The distance between themselves and the Negro…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 31 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … have been lost a dozen times since they were written and thus the biggest rogues may sometimes have the best papers The National Capital is never without a fair representation of these…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 32 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … The Willard Hotel perhaps the best known of Washingtons hotels Courtesy of the Columbia Historical Society The amazing thing is however that with all this gushing and abundant promise to help your…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 33 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … successful politician he must face it all with blandest suavity and the patience of a true martyr But members of Congress are not the only victims of this incessant persistent and annoying…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 34 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … worse still that the administration is friendly to you and you will at once find yourself a famous man Smiling faces anxious to see you and to serve their country will cluster…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 35 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … fleece the simple somebody else in the line of his profession will I have already said that the people of Washington have no claim to superiority in the matter of material civilization…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 36 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … marketing if only to buy a single head of cabbage or a half a peck of potatoes like all the rest she must have a black boy walk behind her and carry…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 37 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … The crack of his long whip is like the report of a Colts revolver He is as noisily free with his husky voice and terrible lash in the streets and avenues of…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 38 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Hillsdale School was the first public school for black children in the Anacostia section of Washington Built in 1871 it stood at the intersection of Nichols now Martin Luther King Jr Avenue…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 39 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … families with them and surround themselves with all the restraints and endearments of home I do not pretend to say that Washington is at all perfect There is of course within her…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
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Image 40 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Lincoln Hall built in 1869 and located at Ninth and D Streets NW was one of the most impressive new buildings in the Washington of Douglasss time Courtesy of Robert TruaxColumbia Historical…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held at the] Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Names
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Created / Published
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
Headings
- - Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895
- - Washington (D.C.)--History
- - Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel
Notes
- - Bibliography: p. 56.
Medium
- 56 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F198 .D75 1978
Library of Congress Control Number
- 78002756
Online Format
- online text
- image