Mechanics Hall has unveiled three newly commissioned portraits of activists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and couple William and Martha Brown — the first in the concert hall’s 167-year ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

The answer, according to Smith, is the moral complexity of Henson, a former plantation overseer turned abolitionist. “Not every enslaved person was Frederick Douglass,” he writes.

Frederick Douglass has been honored with the Google Doogle of the day. ... Sojourner Truth, right, was one of the most outspoken abolitionists and women's rights advocates in U.S. history.

The college took its name from two seminal figures in African-American history: Sojourner Truth, a well-known 19th-century abolitionist, and Frederick Douglass, the former Talbot County slave and ...

The branch was originally named for Henry Yesler, but was renamed in 1975 to honor Black abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. The collection, though, ...

We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth Nancy Koester. Eerdmans, $29.99 (294p) ISBN 978-0-802-87247-0 ...