Landmark Society Presents "Walk the Walk"

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Article Author: Mark Gruba
Article Link: http://bit.ly/16mxTTt
Article Date: Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Article: "Landmark Society presents Walk the Walk"

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Rochester's Black American ancestors was brought to life at the 2015 performance of Walk the Walk: "Encounters with Rochester’s Black American Ancestors". It was presented by The Landmark Society of Western New York during the month of February. For more information, visit the Landmark Society of Western New York website here: http://bit.ly/1zD7Fpu.

Kaylon McFadden (“K-lon The Artist”), masterfully portrays a young Frederick Douglass in "Walk the Walk". Kaylon currently resides where he was born and raised, Rochester, NY. He is actively engaged within his community. Kaylon, alongside his Queen, runs a program called "Read 2 Record", a program where youth 18 and younger, read for 30 minutes, write a paragraph about what they learned and then they can record for free.

To learn about Kaylon visit: http://k-lon.webs.com.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS:

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an Black American Social Reformer, Orator, Abolitionist, Writer, and Statesman. After escaping from slavery, Frederick Douglass became a leader of the Abolitionist Movement and gained note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. Frederick Douglass stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.

His three autobiographies are considered important works of the slave narrative tradition as well as classics of American autobiography. Douglass’ work as a reformer ranged from his abolitionist activities in the early 1840s to his attacks on Jim Crow and lynching in the 1890s.