![]() today, July 4, in the Hall of Philosophy. “I just remember thinking, ‘Who is this guy?’ ” he said.īlight will give the second Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle author presentation of Week Two, a lecture on his biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom at 3:30 p.m. But it wasn’t until he was creating his own courses in black history as a public high school teacher in Flint, Michigan, and later pursuing his graduate degree in the late ’70s and early ’80s, that Blight properly encountered the man whose name and likeness graces the cover of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blight does not remember learning about Frederick Douglass in high school.Īs a college student in the late ’60s and early ’70s, the current director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, recalls some mention of Douglass. ![]()
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