Visitors can tour Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and explore the life of one of America’s most influential ...
Civil rights leader Frederick Douglass’s Washington estate was in Anacostia, but one of the important moments of his life, his wedding to Helen Pitts, took place on the other side of the city, at this ...
One participant, though, told reporters he seemed to be incessantly rubbing his arm, as if it were "benumbed." Yet, according to Helen Pitts Douglass, he was notably eager to recount his day when he ...
A piece of American history is changing hands in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen Pitts, ...