Frederick Douglass ~Abolitionist ~Orator~Reformer Postcard

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) (c. 1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. ***** CC-PD-Mark (PD-US-Gov) *****Re: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FREDERICK_DOUGLASS_-_STATESMAN,_ABOLITIONIST,_CHAMPION_OF_THE_PEOPLE_-_NARA_-_535673.jpg ***** Artist: Charles Henry Alston ~ (1907 -1977) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighbourhood of Harlem. During the 1930s and early 1940s. Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others. He also designed album covers for artists such as Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins. Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of Noteable African Americans. These images were used in over 200 black newspapers across the country by the government to foster goodwill with the black citizenry. Alston was the first African-American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. *****