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Change The Name

Season 3 E 3 • 06/19/2021

Young Black freedom fighters and their educators are the first folks in the country to change the name of a park from a slaveholder to abolitionists Anna and Frederick Douglass in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood.

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