Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom By David W. Blight Simon & Schuster October 2018
Frederick Douglass was the Martin Luther King Jr. of the 19th century. Former slave, author, orator, and statesman, Douglass was the principal black figure in the fight to abolish slavery. Over his long career, he became one of the best-known Americans of his day.
The Boston Red Sox are looking to turn back the clock to 1977, the year the city honored then-recently-deceased longtime team owner Tom Yawkey by renaming the section of Jersey Street bordering Fenway Park's third base line in his name.
Current owner John Henry is now spearheading a petition to convince the city that the only way to move beyond Yawkey's complicated legacy is to strip his namesake from all road signs and markers and return the name of that portion of road to what it once was — Jersey Street.
