WASHINGTON- On Oct. 18, 2018 the National Park Service, National Archives and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History will honor Frederick Douglass’s life and legacy with a panel discussion on Douglass’s ideology and historical context in today’s modern world.
The lively evening program will highlight Douglass as a 19th-century civil rights activist who crusaded to end slavery, spoke on behalf of women’s rights and championed social justice. The program will also feature a dramatic rendition of Frederick Douglass’s 1894 speech “Lessons of the Hour, Why the Negro is Lynched," performed by Douglass reenactor Darius Wallace.
When: Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, from 7- 8:30 p.m.
Where: National Archives William G. McGowan Theater, 700 Constitution Ave. NW
FREE and open to the public. Limited seating available.
Register at: www.archivesfoundation.org/event/frederick-douglass-legacy-today/
Featured panelists:
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Kenneth B. Morris Jr. - Co-Founder and President of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the third great-grandson of Frederick Douglass.
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Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham - Chairperson of the History Department at Harvard University, award-winning author and President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
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Dr. David Blight - Professor of History at Yale University, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, and award-winning author. Blight will sign his latest book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, before and after the panel discussion.
John Whittington Franklin, senior manager in the Office of External Affairs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will serve as moderator. The event is supported in part by the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives.
This free program continues the National Park Service’s yearlong commemoration of the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birth. For more information, visit go.nps.gov/Douglass200.
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