According to Courtland Milloy, of the Washington Post, Frederick Douglass, the great abolition leader will get a statute inside the U.S. Capitol, at last.
OK, lets be real. Fred D has always had a presence in Washington D.C. He has a house in Southeast that the federal government maintains all day, everyday. They will even show you around Fred’s crib and tell you what he did. I took the tour decades ago when the place wasn’t the beautiful monument to American history it is today.
Fred is also downtown inside the Recorder of Deeds building. He was the city’s first, as I recall (I could be wrong).
And now Fred is coming home. He is crossing the river (his house is east of the river) to the nation’s capitol.
I got to say it is well deserved.
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