Mondays at Beinecke: Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives with Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.

Time: 
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 4:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Online
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Description: 

A special Mondays at Beinecke online talk with Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.,the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass and the co-founder and President of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. Since its inception in 2007, FDFI has been advocating for a more equitable world on the issues of human trafficking and racism.

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/48rK1RE

Mr. Morris will talk about his ancestor’s life, lineage, and legacy, in this talk, done in conjunction with the current Beinecke Library exhibition, “Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans at Beinecke Library.”

Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.
Read more about Mr. Morris and FDFI at https://fdfi.org/

Read more about the Beinecke exhibition at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/DouglassBaldwinHarrington