Jasmine Armstrong

 

Selected Resources for Jasmine Armstrong

Link for the National Park Service website for the home: http://www.nps.gov/frdo/index.htm 

Virtual museum (includes a tour of the house): http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/douglass/ 

PBS bio: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html The Frederick Douglass papers at the Library of Congress: 7,400 works (38,000 images), including his diaries, financial records, letters (with persons including Susan B. Anthony, Horace Greely, Grover Cleveland),etc . The site also includes extensive links including a timeline and family tree. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

Library of Congress On Line Resources site  (includes above link): http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/douglass/

James Earl Jones reading Douglass’ speech of July 4, 1852: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tTkHJWxfP0&feature=related

Sample Assignment  - Jasmine Armstrong 

Read a book about Frederick Douglass and learn the history of his life.  Identify other leaders of that time period and explore their history. Frederick Douglass once said, “I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”http://frederickdouglassgop.com/ accessed Nov. 17. What drew Douglass to the Republican party of his era? What do you think he would say about today’s Republican party?

 Discuss the following Douglass quotes: 

• "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” 

• “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.”http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/18943.Frederick_Douglass accessed Nov. 18.