Frederick Douglass, Charles White

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1918–1979
Frederick Douglass, 1951
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 563 x 420 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 22 3/16 x 16 9/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 663 x 507 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 26 1/8 x 19 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2013.0160
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“By my second year, it was natural for me to spend a typical day mediating between Frederick Douglass’s integration into America and Martin Delany’s escape into nationalism. Perhaps they were both somehow right. I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other.” ("Between the World and Me," pp. 47-48)

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