Columbus Day, lynchings and Frederick Douglass' Chicago-based denunciation against racial injustice
Historical accounts highlight Frederick Douglass's involvement in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where he worked to address racial injustice.
This month we mark Columbus Day. The first one was a Chicago story. In the fall of 1892, the nation celebrated 400 years since Columbus reached the Americas. Chicago was its grandest stage. The city dedicated the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition.When the world arrived the next spring, Frederick Douglass was there. He was the most photographed American of his century. At 75, he ran the Haitian Pavilion for the government of Haiti. Ida B. Wells worked beside him, putting a pamphlet…
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