Frederick Douglass Poems - Poems about Frederick Douglass

...Black History Month began as "***** History Week" Our holiday was adopted at a time when the country was bleak Created in 1926 by noted African American Historian, Carter G. Woodson Today, we cele......

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...He understood what I now know But did not at first For I had not seen broken children before Now that I have I understand They can be tainted and tortured into submission before they reach sch......

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...I was a picked on, bullied, browbeaten, buffaloed boy from Buffalo New York. I grew up on Buffalo’s lower east side, the ghetto by another name. The Frederick Douglass towers. Formerly the Tal......

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...Theatre of the Absurd Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd, there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown, an ego-maniac who makes his own staff clap for him and who fast is bringing a nation......

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...THEY WERE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL THEY WERE MIGHTY AND THEY WERE STRONG. THEY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY AND FOR JUSTICE THEY PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING. THEY DO. THEY STOOD UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEV......

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...We have come a long way we have been fighting for centuries and decades to get where we are. Jim Crow and the Segregated south couldn't keep us down. We fought to be equal by marching the str......

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...Only through adversity can GREATNESS be achieved. "If there's no struggle, there's no progress", this is what Frederick Douglass believed. To tap into our inner stength & push forward even whe......

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