The Revolutionary Lives of Anna Murray Douglass and Rosetta Douglass Sprague

Professor Bill E. Lawson and Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier will share stories about the revolutionary lives of Anna Murray Douglass and Rosetta Douglass Sprague. 

As members of the Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass family "freedom-fighting collective", they were a mother and daughter who changed U.S. history. Working side by side with Frederick Douglass, Lewis Henry Douglass, Frederick Douglass, Jr., Charles Remond Douglass, and Annie Douglass, they lived and labored as revolutionary liberators, Underground Railroad freedom-fighters, educators, journalists, newspaper editors, authors, essayists, orators, antislavery agitators, community organizers, family builders, historians, foodways specialists, business owners, political protesters, human rights philosophers, government workers, labor union founders, and civil rights leaders. All their lives they fought for all freedoms on all "freedom's battlegrounds." 

This program is free and open to the public - no registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.