Continuing the legacy of Frederick Douglass

Jet, April 8, 2002

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Caption: Frederick Douglass IV, great-great grandson of legendary abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, delivers a keynote speech under the watchful eye of a portrait of his great-great grandfather at a banquet to honor the latest winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize at the Yale Club in New York. The prizewinner, David Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, received a $25,000 cash award for the most outstanding book on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition. Blight also was presented with a bronze medallion featuring Douglass' portrait in relief. The annual award, administered by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, is named for Douglass (1818-1895), who escaped slavery to emerge as America's premier crusader for human rights in the 19th century.