How did a famed painting of Frederick Douglass go missing from Fisk?

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How did a famed painting of Frederick Douglass go missing om Fisk?
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Adam Tamburin, [email protected] 11:40 a.m. CDT August 29, 2016
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W.E.B. Du Bois gave the school a treasured painting of Frederick Douglass in 1959. Today, it's gone. Fisk's leaders say they are not sure what became of the decades-old gift, and are mounting an investigation into the matter.

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(Photo: National Park Service)

The towering portrait of noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass arrived at Fisk University to great fanfare.

A gift from W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the university's most famous graduates, the near life-size painting was cause for unfettered celebration when he made the donation in 1959. In a letter to Du Bois, then-President Stephen J. Wright was effusive in his thanks.

More: http://www.tennessean.com/story/new...-frederick-douglass-go-missing-fisk/88628288/
 

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