The Angry Prophet: Fredrick Douglass

Duration: 23

Year Published: 1972

Creator: National Broadcasting Corporation

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Presents the social views of U.S. slave-born presidential advisor, lecturer, and writer Fredrick Douglass concerning the social situation of Black Americans as interpreted by actor Jaye Williams. Outlines Douglass' prediction that the inhuman treatment of an oppressing, ruling class and the growth of poverty, hunger, crime, and hatred among the blacks would cause future moral or physical struggle between the two groups. Encourages the blacks to acquire self respect and to participate actively in social and political affairs.

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