1 hour
Starting location: Frederick Douglass Mural on the Grand Parade, Cork
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Join us for a guided walk on the Cork Abolitionists Trail in Cork, Ireland, to see the city through the eyes of Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists who championed freedom. Led by Dr. Adrian Mulligan, the tour will bring you to places visited by these extraordinary women and men and amplify their stories and those of the Irish people and organisations that inspired them.

45 minutes

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Join Dr. Mary Burke (University of Connecticut) for a discussion of Frank Yerby, an African American best-selling author of maternal Irish ancestry. Drawing from her new book, "Race, Politics and Irish America" (OUP, 2023), Burke will discuss “The Foxes of Harrow” (1946), Yerby’s historical romance about a Dublin-born planter in the antebellum South. The Oscar-nominated 1947 screen adaptation starred Irish actress Maureen O’Hara. (Yerby did not write the screenplay.)

The “guttersnipe” Irishness of Yerby’s planter challenges the certainties of the South’s Black-white binary. It also “writes back” to Yerby’s fellow Irish-American novelist, Margaret Mitchell, author of the highly controversial “Gone with the Wind” (1936). Yerby’s novel deviates hugely from Mitchell and from its own film adaptation in depicting rebellious, articulate, and prominent African American characters. Most central to Burke’s talk will be the fact that Frederick Douglass’s depiction in Yerby's novel is cut altogether in the movie adaptation.

60 minutes
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Join us at Kelsey’s Landing rowboat in the Rochester Museum & Science Center for a Douglass-themed story hour as we read Frederick’s Journey by Doreen Rappaport and explore other speeches and writings from members of the Douglass family.

Note: This event is free, but paid admission to the RSMC is required to attend. General admission is $18; information on available discounts is here.

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Join us at the Rochester Museum & Science Center for a guided tour of this exhibit about the Douglass’ historic South Avenue home. You’ll explore primary source documents, heirlooms and artifacts, and learn how this legendary family was instrumental in everything from the abolition of slavery to women’s suffrage to the desegregation of the Rochester City School District.

Note: This event is free, but paid admission to the RSMC is required to attend. General admission is $18; information on available discounts is here.

60 minutes

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this panel will not proceed today as planned. Stay tuned for a new date!

Part of the Douglass Dialogues series, this event brings together experts to discuss the ideas and challenges surrounding exhibitions related to Frederick Douglass in the 21st century, and the role of museums in fighting racism and promoting education on issues such as identity, discrimination, and racial bias. Panelists will also explore the role of cultural institutions in raising awareness about implicit biases in curation and the world of art. Panelists include Lily Wong, Michael Waldron, Kevin O'Brien, Teresa Williams.

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The life of a graduate student is overloaded with lab work, research, conferences, emails, presentations, scheduled and impromptu meetings, reviews, more emails, coursework, organizational events, networking events. These tasks can get even more complicated when considering one’s identities in academic politics, such as race and gender.

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, in a conversation led by Micah Williams, Tashjaé Scales, Yash Chitrakar, and Nashae Prout, four Ph.D. students at the University of Rochester, we will discuss and expand upon the ways students of color survive /thrive /provide /reside /deny the spaces that historically have intended to erase their narratives from the world.

Location: Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, 140 East Main St, Rochester, NY