The following is a list of places and locations named after American activist and writer

Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became ...

Places

Neighborhoods

* Douglass, Memphis, Tennessee * Douglass (Washington, D.C.) * Douglass Place, Baltimore * Douglas Park, Arlington, VA

Parks and sites

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W Street, SE, in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C. United States. Established in 1988 ...

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Anacostia Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. Its downtown is located at the intersection of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. It is located east of the Anacostia River, after which the neighborhood is na ...

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Frederick Douglass Square Historic District The Frederick Douglass Square Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Hammond Street, Cabot Street, Windsor Street, and Westminster Street, in the Lower Roxbury area of Boston, Massachusetts. It covers a that is a remar ...

, Boston * Douglass Park, Chicago, Illinois * Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, Staten Island, New York * Frederick Douglass Bandstand at Lynn Commons, Lynn, Massachusetts * Frederick Douglass Park, 1-19 Exchange Street,

Lynn, Massachusetts Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...

Streets, bridges, and other infrastructure

Frederick Douglass Circle Frederick Douglass Circle is a traffic circle located at the northwest corner of Central Park at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Central Park West) and 110th Street (Cathedral Parkway and Central Park North) i ...

– located at the Northwest corner of Central Park at the foot of

Boulevard and of Cathedral Parkway in the New York City borough of Manhattan * Frederick Douglass Boulevard – a continuation of Eighth Avenue north of Frederick Douglass Circle, starting at 110th Street *

Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a through arch bridge that carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It was completed in 2021 and replaced an older swing bridge that was completed in 1950 as the South ...

, Anacostia * Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge, Rochester, New York * Fredrick Douglass Avenue-Runs from Main St to Warren Ave in

Brockton, Massachusetts Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population is 105,643 as of the 2020 United States Census. Along with Plymouth, it is one of the two county seats of Plymouth County. It is the sixth-largest city in Mas ...

. * Frederick Douglass - Greater Rochester International Airport

Schools

Maryland

Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Maryland) Frederick Douglass High School, established in 1883, is an American public high school in the Baltimore City Public Schools district. Originally named the Colored High and Training School, Douglass is the second-oldest U.S. high school created sp ...

Frederick Douglass High School (Prince George's County, Maryland) Frederick Douglass High School (FDHS), first established in 1923 as ''Marlboro "Colored" High School'' and renamed ''Frederick Douglass High School'' in 1935, is a public high school located in the Croom census-designated place of unincorporated ...

* Sojourner–Douglass College

Missouri

Frederick Douglass High School (Columbia, Missouri) Frederick Douglass High School is an alternative public high school located in Columbia, Missouri. Douglass enrolls students 9-12 from throughout the Columbia Public Schools District. The school competes in MSHSAA 4A. Their sports include baske ...

Douglass High School (Webster Groves, Missouri) Douglass High School was a segregated high school in North Webster Groves, Missouri from 1926 until 1956. Named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the school served the area of North Webster, which had been settled by many black families afte ...

, segregated school that operated from 1926 to 1956 * Douglass University, St. Louis

Oklahoma

* Frederick A. Douglass High School (Oklahoma),

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and ...

Douglass School (Lawton, Oklahoma) Douglass School may refer to: *Douglass School (Lexington, Kentucky) Douglass School in Lexington, Kentucky, US, was both a primary and secondary Fayette County Public Schools (Kentucky), Fayette County Public Schools from 1929 to 1971. Douglass ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Comanche County, Oklahoma

Tennessee

Douglass High School (Memphis, Tennessee) Douglass High School is a public high school (grades 9-12) in Memphis, United States, Tennessee, operated in the Shelby County Schools. Located in the African American Douglass neighborhood in North Memphis, it is named for Frederick Douglass, ...

Douglass High School (Kingsport, Tennessee) Douglass High School was an African-American high school in Kingsport, Tennessee that closed in 1966. At the time, it was the largest African-American school in Upper East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky, and the largest betwe ...

, African-American high school closed in 1966

Virginia

Douglass High School (Leesburg, Virginia) Douglass High School or Douglass Alternate school was built in 1941 in what was then a rural area just outside Leesburg, Virginia as the first high school for African-American students in Loudoun County, Virginia, Loudoun County. The school was b ...

Douglass School (Bristol, Virginia) Douglass School is a historic school building for African-American children in Bristol, Virginia. The original section was built in 1921, with additions and alterations from about 1929 and 1963. It is a two-story, three-bay brick building with a fl ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bristol, Virginia * Frederick Douglass Elementary School (Leesburg, Virginia)

Other states

Douglass High School (Atlanta) Frederick Douglass High School is a public school located in northwest Atlanta, Georgia, United States, bordering the Collier Heights and Center Hill communities. History Since 1968, Frederick Douglass High School has served the communities ...

Frederick Douglass Academy Frederick Douglass Academy (also known as FDA), is a co-educational public school for grades 6-12 located in West Harlem, New York City. The school offers an SAT prep course program and a variety of Advance Placement (AP) college courses that you ...

, West Harlem, New York City * Douglass Academy for Young Men, Detroit * Douglass High School (Texas),

Douglass, Texas Douglass is an unincorporated community in western Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States. It is bordered on the west by the Angelina River. There are approximately 500 people who live in the area. The community named after Kelsey Douglass. Th ...

Douglass Junior and Senior High School Douglass Junior and Senior High School is a historic school building located at Huntington, West Virginia, Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. Built in 1924, it was the segregation-era high school for African Americans in the city, and replac ...

, Huntington, West Virginia *

Douglass School (Lexington, Kentucky) Douglass School in Lexington, Kentucky, US, was both a primary and secondary Fayette County Public Schools (Kentucky), Fayette County Public Schools from 1929 to 1971. Douglass School operated solely for African American students. The building tha ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Kentucky
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
(Cincinnati, OH) * Frederick Douglass High School (Evansville, Indiana)Frederick Douglass High SchoolEvansville Boneyard
Retrieved July 8, 2021.

Other

* Frederick Douglass Book Center: New York City * Frederick Douglass Prize

References

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