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Sorry! Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. She was Nettie Hancock Washington, granddaughter of the Great Educator and the Institute's founder, Booker T. Washington. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. As a mother, a grandmother and as a woman, I'm sickened by the rape, exploitation and violence against girls and women by johns, traffickers and corporate profiteers as well as the indifference of good people that allow it to happen. We have 2 volunteers within ten miles of your requested photo location. Try again. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? Try again later. Oops, something didn't work. Great great grandaughter on the legacy of Frederick Douglass. Ms. Douglass is now Chairwoman for the Atlanta-based public charity, the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation. Frederick and Nettie fell in love instantly. We were unable to submit your feedback at this time. Get all the latest election results from across the country, with up-to-the-minute maps and more. A sense of fear and uncertainty was mounting steadily on this side of the Atlantic as well. Drag images here or select from your computer for Nettie Hancock Washington Douglass memorial. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Before moving to the District, she worked as a social worker in Los Angeles County, Calif., for about five years. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. Netting Washington, 65, Kin of B. T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, DiesMrs. It goes to show that history, in many ways, has also been defined by strong women.". She found that the scales of justice were weighted on the side of the perpetrators. We have 2 volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? *This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning. Hitler rolled across the whole of Europe and down into North Africa while Japan was invading China. Gloria Allred, Discrimination Attorney, Feminist Lawyer, also adds: Advocating for the rights of women has been a focus of my career. Unfortunately, this is not a story of romantic love, but a love defined by a mother's strength. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. He was as handsome as he was brilliant with a pedigree to match. The child, Nettie Washington Douglass, was born fatherless but nurtured with love, devotion and determination on the part of three amazing women: her mother, her mother's mother, also named Nettie Hancock Washington, and her paternal grandmother, Fannie Howard Douglass. Please try again later. Please try again later. × Human trafficking victims deserve support and so I lend my voice to the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation and their campaign to prevent this crime. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Nettie Washington Douglass, 65, the granddaughter of noted educator Booker T. Washington, who taught at Sousa Junior High School in Washington, D. C., for 20 years before retiring in 1979, died recently of cancer at her home in Bethesda, Md. or don't show this again—I am good at figuring things out. Make sure that the file is a photo. Together, they all did their best to make up for that which had been lost. The first step to ending trafficking and prostitution is to change society's views about the value of women and girls, and to end the demand. Both trafficking and prostitution find their roots in gender inequality, which allows demand to flourish in the belief that there is no harm in purchasing the bodies of women and girls. The child, Nettie Washington Douglass, was born fatherless but nurtured with love, devotion and determination on the part of three amazing women: her mother, her mother’s mother, also named Nettie Hancock Washington, and her paternal grandmother, Fannie Howard Douglass. Also an additional 2 volunteers within fifty miles. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. I recently represented a victim of sex trafficking who was a minor. If you have questions, please contact support@findagrave.com. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Resend Activation Email. Join Ms. Douglass, Ms. Fisher and Ms. Allred by sending your paragraph to campaign@fdff.org. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Nettie Hancock Washington Douglass I found on Findagrave.com. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request. "I get my name from two great American men, but I have been defined by the strong women in my life." You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 20 photos to this memorial. For Edits select Suggest Edits on the memorial page. Please enter location or other information that may help the volunteer in fulfilling this request. Failed to delete memorial. "It's fairly well known that Frederick Douglass was one of the first and most influential male supporters of the Women's Rights movement, but, what a lot of people don't know is that, without his wife -- my great-great grandmother, Anna Murray-Douglass -- the world may never have known Frederick Douglass. Failed to report flower. When she's not being protected, it's time to demand change. June 19, 2013 | Clip Of Frederick Douglass Statue Dedication Ceremony This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. We have a volunteer within ten miles of your requested photo location. Today's slave owners prey on the most vulnerable among us. Today is National Voter Registration Day! If a new volunteer signs up in your requested photo location, they may see your existing request and take the photo. We must speak out for girls that are being broken. Sharon Fisher, President of Soroptimist International of the Americas, responded with this paragraph as a simple yet powerful first step: As an organization working for almost 90 years to improve the lives of women and girls, Soroptimist vehemently denounces the heinous crimes of sex trafficking and prostitution. All rights reserved. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to feedback@findagrave.com and include a link to the page and details about the problem. We do not have any photo volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. GREAT NEWS! "With millions around the world living in one form of bondage or another his work is not finished. He had been commissioned as a surgeon by the Veterans Administration to serve at Tuskegee during the war. Follow Robert Benz on Twitter @DouglassFamily. Mrs Douglass was a volunteer worker with the Red Cross of Bethesda Naval Hospital and advisor on the Frederick Douglass Scholarship Fund at American University. Her smile was more like that of a Hollywood starlet. President Obama and congressional leaders spoke at a ceremony in Emancipation Hall to commemorate the 150th anniversary…, Congressional leaders presented the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of the 65th Infantry Regiment, known as the…, Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) received the Congressional Gold Medal from House and Senate leaders in…, A ceremony was held to unveil the Senate Leadership Portrait of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who was retiring…, https://images.c-span.org/Files/498/20130622205700001_hd.jpg, U.S. Capitol | Office of the Speaker of the House, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center | Emancipation Hall, © 2020 National Cable Satellite Corporation, Frederick Douglass Statue Dedication Ceremony.

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