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Analysis: Controversy over memorial to abolitionist Frederick Douglass

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From: Tavis Smiley (NPR)
Date: 20040318
Author:TONY COX

TONY COX
Tavis Smiley (NPR)
03-18-2004
Analysis: Controversy over memorial to abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Host: TONY COX
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM

TONY COX, host:

From NPR in Los Angeles, I'm Tony Cox in for Tavis.

The telling of American history would not be complete without a detailed look at the role of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass in helping to end this country's most divisive issue ever, slavery. Now it is the memory of Douglass himself that is the subject of divisions in a Maryland county. An attempt to erect a memorial to the early human rights leader created a major battle in a ...

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