Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and U.S. Capitol
Lauren Victoria Burke
May 23, 2013
On Wednesday, June 19, a statue of famous abolitionist Frederick
Douglass (1818-1895) will be unveiled in the in the United States
Capitol Visitor Center at a ceremony. After escaping slavery, Douglass
became a leader of the abolitionist movement and a prolific writer.
District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has been pushing
for the statue for years. All 50 states are represented in the Capitol
by a famous person. But not Washington DC.
Douglass will be the fourth African American to be depicted in the U.S. Capitol complex.
The last African American to be unveiled was Rosa Parks (1913-2005).
Her statue in statuary hall. A statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-1968) stands in the Capitol rotunda and a statue of abolisionist
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was unveiled in the the U.S. Capitol
Visitors Center in 2012.
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