Morning Edition Frederick Douglass
A frederick douglass statue is one of the latest victims in a long string of monument defacement over the past several weeks.
Morning edition frederick douglass. Celebrates this independence day amid calls for systemic reform. In this film five descendants of frederick douglass read excerpts of his speech what to the slave is the fourth of july. It happened over the weekend and police say that the statue was torn off its base and left. Dean nelson chairman of the frederick douglass foundation says the wisdom of leaders like douglass is critical at this time in our history.
In front of a crowd of over 1 000 people douglass gave a lecture detailing the fragility of the federal government s institutions and the dangers of overconfidence in the government. Descendants of frederick douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches. On march 16 1867 frederick douglass made his first stop in minnesota in winona. The beinecke library of yale university will make public the largest known collection of material related to frederick douglass including scrapbooks newspaper clippings and letters.
Then get the morning bell an early. I became interested in frederick douglass after seeing his unsmiling and magnificent likeness on a us postage stamp in 1967. Rochester police are investigating damage done to a statue of frederick douglass in maplewood park. Then get the morning bell an early morning edition of the day s.
The statue of abolitionist douglass was ripped on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches delivered in that city in 1852. Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 168 years ago. Now i follow up. He was probably born in 1818 and it is certain that.