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Who can rightly claim Frederick Douglass as one of their own ... When we pass by the wonderful statue of him by sculptor Richard Blake on the University’s DeBaptiste Plaza, let us make the ...
It turns out Frederick Douglass had this idea first. “There is room in Lincoln park [sic] for another monument,” he urged in a letter published ... that the Emancipation statue would empower ...
A statue of Frederick Douglass, orator, writer, abolitionist, and advocate for equality of all people, will move from the atrium of a government office building to Capitol Hill’s Emancipation ...
So believed Frederick Douglass, an American slave ... Douglass’s view on monuments. In an 1876 letter to the editor about the Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park, Douglass observed, “Perhaps ...
A debate over the statue of Lincoln and ... two history professors to discover Frederick Douglass' letter, which could sway some opinions on the matter. The Emancipation Memorial in Washington ...
This is in response to the Letter To The Editor by Tommy White published ... In his references to the toppling of a Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, Mr. Freind is not speaking for the ...
The removal of Confederate monuments across the country has prompted debates about other statues ... a point Douglass made both in the letter and in the address he gave at the Emancipation ...
a long-forgotten letter showing how Frederick Douglass really felt about a statue of Abraham Lincoln and a slave. Messrs. Sandage and White are history professors who have been on opposite sides ...
The Emancipation Memorial ... and former slave Frederick Douglass thought about the statue, so Sandage dug into newspaper archives, where he found a long-lost letter by Douglass about it.