ADMISSION:
Free
TIME:
Monday, March 4, 2024 – 4:00pm to 4:30pm
LOCATION:
Online
OPEN TO:
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 4 pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30 pm until 5 pm.
Read more about Mr. Morris and FDFI at https://fdfi.org/

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