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"Frederick Douglass" Advocates for Freedom from Self-Deprecation

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From: Washington Informer
Date: 20060215
Author:Van Lowe, Carlton R.

Van Lowe, Carlton R.
Washington Informer
02-15-2006
Fred Morsell, 60, has been impersonating Frederick Douglass since 1990.
Concerned about African American youth running drugs and joining gangs, the
Compton-based historian grew determined to teach them to love themselves.
Next week he will perform for a group of elementary students invited to the
Frederic Douglass Home in Anacostia in Southeast, Washington, as part of
several Black History Month events hosted there.

Appearing as the famed orator who taught himself to read, escaped slavery,
fought alongside abolitionists, and later advised U.S. ...

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