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Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, NY

The Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, NY’s Highland Park celebrates one of my hometown’s two greatest civil rights luminaries. The other is Susan B. Anthony

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Woman in high-necked dress with long curls
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Clarina Nichols: A Woman Alone

Clarina Nichols was a woman alone for most of her life. And some of the time she was married, she was miserable. Like D.R. Anthony,

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Contemporaries of the Anthonys

The Lady Who Made This Big War

That is how Abraham Lincoln is said to have greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe when he met her many years after the publication of her shocking

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