NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
In addition to the packet of printed material provided by the presenter, this page provides links to electronic resources. Click on any topic from the list below to jump to the named resources.
This page, hosted by UC Berkeley's Interactive University Project, will remain available online for several weeks, and may be expanded or edited during that time. All information at this site will be turned over to Oakland Unified School District toward the end of the Spring Semester.
- OUSD's previously archived Frederick Douglass resources
- Texts of Frederick Douglass' writing and speeches
- Supplementary texts and Douglass excerpts provided by presenter
- Academic, library and museum sites with historical background and biographical information
- K-12 teacher and curriculum sites
- Video and audio archives of pertinent information
OUSD's previously archived Frederick Douglass resources
- Urban Dreams Project's Frederick Douglass page
http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/language_arts/extended/11/douglas/index.html
- Teaching American History's resource page for Frederick Douglass
http://www.teachingamericanhistory.us/resources/historian_teach.html
Texts of Frederick Douglass' writing and speeches
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/
- My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1850)
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/douglasslife/douglass.html
Supplementary texts and Douglass excerpts provided by presenter
- Excerpts from Frederick Douglass Narratives
http://iu.berkeley.edu/ousd/Filer/filetree/douglass/frederick_douglasss_narrative_quotations.doc
- Poem by Richard Wright
http://iu.berkeley.edu/ousd/Filer/filetree/douglass/richard_wright.doc
- Steve Biko: On Death
http://iu.berkeley.edu/ousd/Biko
- Presenter recommends Orlando Patterson's book Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067481083X/104-4484080-7205564?v=glanceko
Academic, library and museum sites with historical background and biographical information
- The Frederick Douglass Papers: at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
- The Frederick Douglass Papers Project: at University of Indiana/Purdue University
http://www.iupui.edu/~douglass/
- Frederick Douglass resource bank: at PBS site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
- A Frederick Douglass Biography: at the University of Rochester
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html
- Frederick Douglass American Visionary: National Park Service site
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/
- Frederick Douglass All Image Gallery: National Park Service site
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/allimg.html
- Frederick Douglass: site at Keele University, UK
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Portraits/douglass.html
K-12 teacher and curriculum sites
- Lesson Plan for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: developed by OUSD teacher Mary Scott
http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/lessonplans/frederickdouglass/index.html
- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) — Classroom Issues and Strategies: from the Heath Anthology of American Literature site
http://georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/douglass.html
- Frederick Douglass Teacher Resource Page: archived at James Madison University
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/douglass.htm
- Frederick Douglass Lesson Plan: archived at the Africana Blackboard — lesson plans and learning exchange
http://archive.blackvoices.com/blackboard/
- Selections for Discussion Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: from the Great Books Foundation
http://www.greatbooks.org/library/guides/douglass.shtml
- Perspective on the Slave Narrative: from National Endowment for the Humanities site Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=321
- A lecture "Frederick Douglass – An American Hero": Clarence Walker, UC Davis, for OUSD's Teaching American History
http://www.teachingamericanhistory.us/speakers/walker.html
- Douglass video lesson: from C-Span's New History Series
http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/vlp11_douglass.asp
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