Transcript Thursday 11/17

Bell Work: Current Event
Monday 2/6/17
Last week:
“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an
amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice,”
Trump said during what was billed as an “African-American
History Month listening session” at the White House.
Read this quote and think about it. Don’t write. Just think. Can
you tell what is wrong with it?
Choose two bullet points and write them down. What
do you think about Frederick Douglass:
• Taught himself to read and write.
• Became an abolitionist and preacher.
• Wrote a book called Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave - exposed slavery for the crime against humankind
that it is.
• Persuaded the American public and Abraham Lincoln that ALL are
equal and deserving of the right to live free.
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Established the North Star – an antislavery newspaper
Supported women’s rights when few men did so.
Argued against unfair U.S. immigration restrictions.
First African-American confirmed for a Presidential
appointment (President Rutherford B. Hayes) by the U.S.
Senate (U.S. Marshal).
• Appointed U.S. Minister to Haiti by President Benjamin
Harrison.
2/6
The Story of Us: Colonists & Rebels (DVD)
• Get blue handout.
• Set-up journal.