20th Anniversary of the Frederick Douglass Read-a-Thon
Program Activities 2019
November
Now or Never! 54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery, withRay Anthony Shepard
Teaching the Freed People: Reading the Diary of Ellen Kempton, with Ivy MacMahon and Lee Blake
October
Fish Fry Fundraiser For Douglass, funds raised benefit the Frederick Douglass Memorial Statue in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Unveiling & Re-dedication Ceremony for a Lost Hero of the Abolitionist Movement withThe New Bedford Preservation Society
September
African American Stops on the Massachusetts Historic Trail with Beth Luey, co-sponsored by the New Bedford Historical Society and the New Bedford Free Public Library
2nd Annual Frederick Douglass Day in New Bedford, with David Blight
August
2019 Commemoration of the First Africans Landing, with the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and a performance by Everett Hoagland, Candida Rose and Iva Brito
May
Book Signing & Book Reading of How High The Moon by Karyn Parsons, with the New Bedford Art Museum & Cultural Consultants
April
Wrap With Spirit: The Art & Fashion of African Head Wrapping , with the Alison Wells Fine Art Studio & Gallery
Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Photographs by Pete Souza, with NBAM/ArtWorks!
February
19th Annual Frederick Douglass Community Read-a-Thon
Black History Month Events:
From Slavery to Freedom: African Americans in Maritime History
Whaling Captains of Color-America’s First Meritocracy
African Americans and the Maritime Trades
Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass
Sgt. William H. Carney – a short film
New Bedford and the Underground Railroad
Program Activities 2018
New LGBTQ Bedford Winter Film Series
Douglass Bicentennial 1818 – 2018
#Douglasslivedhere AHA! Night
Brief Evidence of Heaven: poems in the voice of Anna Douglass
Douglass Bicentennial Celebration
If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in Walter Evans Collection
