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Frederick Douglass’ 200th Birthday Invites Remembrance and Reflection
This Douglass Day, celebrate an icon’s bicentennial while helping to transcribe the nation’s black history

By Allison Keyes
smithsonian.com
February 8, 2018


In pictures, the eyes of Frederick Douglass, the iconic enslaved man who escaped and became an international abolitionist and activist, blaze from a stern face, framed by a lion’s mane of kinky hair. Douglass (1818-1895) once said: “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/frederick-douglass-200th-birthday-invites-remembrance-and-reflection-180968100/#8z6KwPTgivzgBhbY.99

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Frederick Douglass’ 200th Birthday Invites Remembrance and Reflection
This Douglass Day, celebrate an icon’s bicentennial while helping to transcribe the nation’s black history

By Allison Keyes
smithsonian.com
February 8, 2018


In pictures, the eyes of Frederick Douglass, the iconic enslaved man who escaped and became an international abolitionist and activist, blaze from a stern face, framed by a lion’s mane of kinky hair. Douglass (1818-1895) once said: “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/frederick-douglass-200th-birthday-invites-remembrance-and-reflection-180968100/#8z6KwPTgivzgBhbY.99

Have they turned him into the man who inspired the creation of the Black Panther Party yet?
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