Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln Honor Guard
Tax deductible
Help support a family-friendly community conversation about the history of President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass with special guests & speakers in Lincoln Park in Washington City the evening of Friday, July 3, 2020.
Nathan Richardson as Frederick Douglass will deliver excerpts of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July " (1852).
Organizational and individual support has been generously offered by the Washington Informer Charities, The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Old Anacostia Douglassonians, Frederick (Bailey) Douglass Honor Guard and others.
Donations will help support costs associated with printing programs & flyers, reimbursing speakers for their travel and time, securing hospitality provisions such as water, face masks and other materials.
All funds raised will be used to support the family-friendly event.
The history of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln will be shared, including the meetings of Douglass and Lincoln in 1863 and 1864 in the White House, their interaction in March 1865 during President Lincoln's second inauguration, stories of the friendship of Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Keckley, excerpts of Frederick Douglass’s 1876 speech at the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument and the friendship of Frederick Douglass and Robert Todd Lincoln.
Invitations to attend have been extended to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC Mayor Muriel Bower, members of the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives and several other public and local officials.
More details forthcoming as they become available. This event is currently taking form and will be updated as necessary.
More information about Washington Informer Charities:
The Washington Informer Charities strives to improve and advance 21st-century literacy among African American youth and adults.Donations are 100% tax deductible.
Nathan Richardson as Frederick Douglass will deliver excerpts of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July " (1852).
Organizational and individual support has been generously offered by the Washington Informer Charities, The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Old Anacostia Douglassonians, Frederick (Bailey) Douglass Honor Guard and others.
Donations will help support costs associated with printing programs & flyers, reimbursing speakers for their travel and time, securing hospitality provisions such as water, face masks and other materials.
All funds raised will be used to support the family-friendly event.
The history of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln will be shared, including the meetings of Douglass and Lincoln in 1863 and 1864 in the White House, their interaction in March 1865 during President Lincoln's second inauguration, stories of the friendship of Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Keckley, excerpts of Frederick Douglass’s 1876 speech at the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument and the friendship of Frederick Douglass and Robert Todd Lincoln.
Invitations to attend have been extended to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC Mayor Muriel Bower, members of the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives and several other public and local officials.
More details forthcoming as they become available. This event is currently taking form and will be updated as necessary.
More information about Washington Informer Charities:
The Washington Informer Charities strives to improve and advance 21st-century literacy among African American youth and adults.Donations are 100% tax deductible.
Organizer
John Yahya H Muller
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC
Washington Informer Charities
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
