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Frederick Douglass - Unexpected by Stephen Blackburn

A workshop production developed in the Fierce Backbone lab.

Directed by David Wendell Boykins

Featuring: G.Smokey Campbell

Description: Right before taking the stage to launch his 1884 farewell speaking tour, former slave and internationally renowned civil rights activist Frederick Douglass receives an unexpected letter from women's rights titan Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a former colleague with whom he had a very public and ugly break years earlier.

SHOWTIMES:
Friday April 29 @ 8pm
Saturday April 30 @ 8pm
Sunday May 1 @ 3pm

THE THEATER:
The Ruby Theatre at the Complex
6476 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038

ALLOW TIME TO FIND STREET PARKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

Produced by Consuelo Flores & Stephen Blackburn

**This project is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.**

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