Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

Written by Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

Grade:

2-6

ISBN-13:

978-1580895699

Publisher:

Charlesbridge (2016)

This book tells the story of the unlikely (or at least unconventional) friendship between two great champions of justice, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Both were in strong support of one another's causes, and spoke out together for the rights of women and African-Americans. The book, accompanied by imaginative watercolors, does not shy away from Douglass and Anthony's major conflict—over the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted voting rights to African-Americans but not to women—but emphasizes how much these two unlikely friends fought for one another's causes and persevered in their work at a time when a friendship—and especially a partnership in fighting for equal rights—between a black man and a white woman was frowned upon by society at large.