Eminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 Size:24x36 Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating

Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York

or any room built around the idea that small things deserve careful attention

a volume cradled in his hand like the constitutional doctrine he had spent three decades pressing into American law — judicial restraint rendered as oil

The boy soldier of Chickamauga rendered in the year of his fame — barely twelve

convinced our pale companion was a world that had already finished dying

Eminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 Size:24x36 Portrait of Admiral Dewey CommemoratingEminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 places the great orator at the center of a post war pantheon, his likeness drawn from the lithographer's deliberate hand nearly two decades after emancipation an assertion, in print, that Black achievement belonged on the wall beside the republic's other founders. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional