Continuing the legacy of Frederick Douglass. (Newsmakers).(great grandson of abolitionist and orator)(Brief Article)

From: Jet | Date: April 8, 2002 | Copyright information

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Caption: Frederick Douglass IV, great-great grandson of legendary abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, delivers a keynote speech under the watchful eye of a portrait of his great-great grandfather at a banquet to honor the latest winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize at the Yale Club in New York. The prizewinner, David Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, received a $...

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