Resistance to Oppression and Tyranny: Articles

The Rev. Harriette Cross wants people to know Englewood for its people, not the headlines it generates.

Ernest Fremont Tittle, the first Chairman of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, sought to further racial justice through normal, historic, and characteristically American channels of protest and pressure.

Frederick Douglass's strong sense of individualism was the result of his confusion over the co-existence of a just God and the evil of slavery. The ways in which this confusion influenced his writing are examined.

In his early addresses on religion and slavery, particularly his famous “Slaveholder's Sermon,“ Frederick Douglass used parody to address one of the abolition movement's most serious challenges, the belief that the Bible sanctioned slavery.