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FREDERICK DOUGLASS' DESCENDANT PUTS ACCENT ON EDUCATION.(NEWS)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 19960218
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Byline: Judie Telfer Scripps-McClatchy Western Service

He didn't have a formal education, but the basics - knowing how to read and write and speak - allowed Frederick Douglass to escape from slavery and become one of the most prominent men of his time, a famous orator and abolitionist.

That is the message that the slave's great-great-grandson, Army Sgt. Kevin Douglass Greene, is bringing to students in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District during February, as Black History Month is being celebrated.

A 1979 graduate of Monterey High School, Greene has spoken ...

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