“Love came to me, and I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color.”
– Helen Pitts Douglass
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Notes:
- Photograph is of Helen and her husband Frederick Douglass. Her sister Eva stands in the background. The photograph was taken circa 1880.
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Sources:
- “Helen Pitts Douglass.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Pitts_Douglass
- National Park Service / “Frederick Douglass – Helen (right) her sister Eva Pitts (center).” Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Douglass_-_Helen_Pitts_Douglass_(right)_her_sister_Eva_Pitts_(center).png
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