A mistake made more than 100 years ago in Albany has been corrected by the addition of a lower-case letter “s.” Governor Cuomo’s office says the “s” was added to the name of Frederick Douglass on the Capitol’s Great Western Staircase, built in the 1890s. The names and faces of 77 great Americans were […]
A new statue of abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was dedicated in Rochester this afternoon…on the spot where its predecessor was torn off its base by vandals last weekend. The statue was one of 13 by artist Olivia Kim put up by the “Re-energizing the Legacy of Frederick Douglass Project.” The statues around Rochester commemorate […]
Two St. John Fisher College students have been charged with criminal mischief after trying to steal a statue of Frederick Douglass early Sunday morning. The college says both the young men who pulled down and carried off the statue of Douglass in Rochester have been suspended. The students were caught carrying the statue down the […]