On the record
A hundred white men will attend a concert of counterfeit Negro minstrels, with faces blackened with burnt cork, to one who will attend a lecture by an intelligent Negro.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass highlights the disparity in attention given to Black entertainers versus educated Black individuals.
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