16 Facts About Rosetta Douglass

Rosetta Douglass-Sprague was an American teacher and activist.

Rosetta Douglass was a founding member of the National Association for Colored Women.

Rosetta Douglass's mother was Anna Murray Douglass and her father was Frederick Douglass.

Rosetta Douglass eventually was tutored between the ages of two and seven.

In 1848, Rosetta was admitted into the Seward Seminary in Rochester, New York.

Rosetta Douglass was segregated from the white students while she was there, and her father spoke out against this in his newspaper.

Rosetta Douglass was expelled after a vote of her white classmates with only one vote against her, proposed by the white, and abolitionist, director.

Rosetta Douglass attended Oberlin College's Young Ladies Preparatory and Massachusetts' Salem Normal School.

Rosetta Douglass was a critical thinker like her father, but struggled against the demands of gender roles during her time.

Rosetta Douglass did not support her father's interracial marriage after her mother's death.

Rosetta Douglass's husband had been enslaved and was poorly educated.

Rosetta Douglass struggled to find his footing and a job.

Rosetta Douglass had seven children, and many grandchildren.

Rosetta Douglass worked with her father, and had a keen sense of social justice issues.

Rosetta Douglass advised her father against accepting the presidency of the Freedman's Bank.

Rosetta Douglass went on to become a founding member of the National Association for Colored Women.