How to pronounce “douglass” in English

Frederick Douglass, writing just around the time the Second World War, he relates the story of when he was a slave-- a young slave, a kid-- working

And Douglass said, ding, ding, ding!

So Douglass Houghton goes out in 1837 in the fall to explore Michigan.

Because Douglass Houghton is gathering samples largely rocks and the other guys are doing the paddling, they'd actually hire guys to do nothing but paddle.

So Douglass Houghton went to the federal government and got a contract to finish the survey of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

After Douglass Houghton died, Alvah Bradish then painted this life size portrait, full size portrait of him standing in front of what he imagined the pictured rocks looked

Frederick Douglass is a very, very powerful and compelling example.

But Frederick Douglass, of course, had run away from slavery when he was enslaved in Maryland.

But as Frederick Douglass would say a few years later when he was asked to comment on the celebration of the 4th

And so Douglass says, look at all these laws in the South that say don't teach black people to read.

Columbus: The Life of Douglass Houghton here in our Ann Arbor Google office today.

story of Douglass Houghton.

this tall and Douglass Houghton was about this tall -- they called Douglass Houghton a little doctor, he five foot four, so he's probably about

corners were marked by Douglass Houghton and his men back in 1844 and 1845.

Steve Lehto: The Douglass Houghton Falls are on private property now.

As Frederick Douglass points out in his most important speech, commemorating the 4th of July, his compatriots were being hypocritical

Eleanor Roosevelt opened the Brewster-Douglass project herself.

You can go back to the Lincoln-Douglass debates.

And when the news reached Detroit that Douglass Houghton had drowned it was a-a big deal as, it had the equivalent of like a state funeral in Detroit.

his last years of his life on Douglass Houghton's parents' farm.

And the one time that Douglass Houghton sat for a portrait, Bradish painted in about 1835, he's seated in a chair as typical portrait guy sitting in a chair painting.

culture of United States not Frederick Douglass and Flannery O'Connor and a nun

Frederick Douglass said, "power concedes nothing without a demand."

Lincoln wasn't even an abolitionist that was Frederick Douglass and John Brown and a bunch of other people.

So Douglass Houghton born in New York in the early 1800's and in a town called Fredonia, New York, believe it or not near Troy, and he grew up in the area and went to school

first salt well was sunk by men that Douglass Houghton said, "Dig a well here."

And previously the other historians who have talked about Douglass Houghton had always relied upon this report that was put together by one of the guys who came down from Ft.

And so if you allow someone like Frederick Douglass to expose the hypocrisy of, on the one hand, you know, having Madison and Jefferson develop these great principles,

We had asked President Obama to walk with us from the Frederick Douglass House to the Capitol.

And of course, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were contemporaries but lived very, very different lives.

They just pass laws to oppress us, Frederick Douglass writes in the 1840s.

So Schoolcraft got federal funding, Douglass Houghton and a bunch of other men and they went up to find the headwaters of the Mississippi in the Michigan Territory.

And it's fascinating because some of these trips there'd be Douglass Houghton and two or three other guys all keeping daily journals of everything they did.

And Alvah Bradish was Douglass Houghton's brother-in-law.

One of the most interesting things I found doing this research was that Douglass Houghton had a brother named Jacob. And Jacob was Douglass' younger brother. And when Douglass Houghton

We got to take care of ourselves because it is a fight, and Frederick Douglass says eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

February 14 was the birthday of Frederick Douglass.

I don't know if you've ever seen these things, if you've read Frederick Douglass's autobiography, he discusses them.

While all this is going on, a friend of Douglass Houghton's who's the Governor of Michigan, Stevens T. Mason, they call him "the little, the boy governor."

So Douglass Houghton then on top of everything else he's done, then approaches the federal government and he-he's also trained as a surveyor.

And the voyagers go into town and say, "Hey look Douglass Houghton's boat just capsized."

weird thing about is that number one, the falls are misspelled it's always Douglass dash Houghton and his name's not hyphenated.

Steve Lehto: And Alvah wrote a very, very nice biography of Douglass Houghton in the 1880's which is not probably not terribly historically accurate.

Well, for most of the tradition of Black American thought from Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King Jr., to people like Barack Obama,

There's Sherman, there's Stonewall Jackson, there's Frederick Douglass,

But all of those cultural experiences, I can only imagine your dad's face when you stood up to protect Black spaces at Douglass,

You see, the Frederick Douglass is an Ida B. Wells, Barnett and Martin Kings and the John Coltrane's and the Luther

What you want, Frederick Douglass.

It comes from, for me, knowing that a Thurgood Marshall exists, knowing that there was a Frederick Douglass, knowing that there were--