Never attending a formal day of school in his life Frederick (Bailey) Douglass was a trusted advisor and friend to college and university presidents, faculty and students on three continents for more than a half-century.
From the University of Rochester to Oberlin College to Wilberforce University to Morgan State University to Harvard University to Howard University to Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia to Al-Alzhar University in Cairo Douglass made lasting contributions to intellectual and academic life on the campuses he visited and universities he served as a member of their board of trustees.
Academic mythomanes replete with a redundant minimizing and nursery rhyme narrative of the life of Frederick (Bailey) Douglass know not the consequence of his history with higher education. Let us move forward and uplift this lost history and begin to properly tell the more complete history of Frederick Douglass and higher education.
** An earlier version of the this presentation, "Lost History: Frederick Douglass and Howard University," was made in February 2018 at the National Park Service's Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. **
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Your hosts for this program are John Muller, co-founder of Lost History USA (www.losthistoryUSA.com) and author of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia, and Justin McNeil, co-founder of Lost History USA.
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