Outside the Village Theatre on Second Avenue, propagandists pressed peace petitions on passersby. Inside, at a peace rally sponsored by the Fifth Avenue Parade Committee, H. Rap Brown, head of the ...
A Howard University professor has urged lefty “white allies” to be more like an infamous Civil War-era abolitionist who was hanged for murder. Dr. Stacey Patton, a journalism professor, made the ...
Brian Evans, a direct descendant of abolitionist John Brown, and Kevin Douglas Green, a direct descendant of Frederick Douglass, meet for the first time at Venice Island Performing Arts Center in ...
An etching of John Brown’s funeral appeared in the Dec. 24, 1859 edition of the New York Illustrated News. Image from Wikimedia Commons Joshua Young had a train to catch. Aboard it was his hero, the ...