Frederick Douglass Forum Lecture Series

Title

How to Be an Antiracist & Frederick Douglass's Oration "The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered"

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video File

Duration

1 hour 22 minutes 12 seconds

Publication Date

4-27-2018

Disciplines

American Politics | Political History | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | United States History

Abstract

As part of the day-long event Why Douglass Matters: A Bicentennial Symposium, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (professor of history and director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University) discusses antiracism in the context of the first speech Frederick Douglass ever gave to a college audience, delivered at the commencement at Western Reserve College (now Case Western Reserve University) on July 12, 1854.

Comments

Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice, with support from the Elliot Alexander Fund and the Jack Miller Center.

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