All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Frederick and Nettie fell in love instantly. Survivors include a daughter, Nettie Douglass Morris. As a mother, a grandmother and as a woman, I'm sickened by the rape, exploitation and violence against girls and women by johns, traffickers and corporate profiteers as well as the indifference of good people that allow it to happen. A native of Tuskegee, Ala., Mrs. Douglass was a graduate of New York University and did graduate study at American University. Today is National Voter Registration Day! We have 2 volunteers within ten miles of your requested photo location. A system error has occurred. GREAT NEWS! For Edits select Suggest Edits on the memorial page. Join Ms. Douglass, Ms. Fisher and Ms. Allred by sending your paragraph to campaign@fdff.org. Oops, something didn't work. To add a flower, click the “Leave a Flower” button. Sorry! Failed to remove flower. We do not have any photo volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. We must speak out for girls that are being broken. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. based on information from your browser. For help using the website visit our help page or contact support@findagrave.com. The first step to ending trafficking and prostitution is to change society's views about the value of women and girls, and to end the demand. Great great grandaughter on the legacy of Frederick Douglass. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. And, when Nettie was three months pregnant with the couple's first and only child, Frederick took his own life, perhaps, due to the profound burden of having to earn his famous name. Please reset your password. Resend Activation Email. Trafficking and prostitution constitute modern day slavery. 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"Women must stand up for women. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? "It's fairly well known that Frederick Douglass was one of the first and most influential male supporters of the Women's Rights movement, but, what a lot of people don't know is that, without his wife -- my great-great grandmother, Anna Murray-Douglass -- the world may never have known Frederick Douglass. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Thanks for your help! Start by sending me a single paragraph from you or your organization and I will assemble them so that we are all heard as one voice.". Try again later. Nettie Hancock Douglass (Washington) (1917 - 1982) - Genealogy Nettie Hancock Washington, Josephine Baker, Nettie (Honey) Washington Douglass. Please try again later. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. Very few little girls are lucky enough to be born into famous and loving families like Nettie Washington Douglass. Both trafficking and prostitution find their roots in gender inequality, which allows demand to flourish in the belief that there is no harm in purchasing the bodies of women and girls. Gloria Allred, Discrimination Attorney, Feminist Lawyer, also adds: Advocating for the rights of women has been a focus of my career. "I get my name from two great American men, but I have been defined by the strong women in my life." We have set your language to This account has been disabled. "With millions around the world living in one form of bondage or another his work is not finished. Nettie Washington Douglass, 65, the granddaughter of noted educator Booker T. Washington, who taught at Sousa Junior High School in Washington, D. C., for 20 years before retiring in 1979, died recently of cancer at her home in Bethesda, Md. We have a volunteer within ten miles of your requested photo location. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to feedback@findagrave.com and include a link to the page and details about the problem. Citing the urgency to rid communities of human trafficking-related crimes, Ms. Douglass is challenging women everywhere to join her in an anti-trafficking revolution this fall. Verify and try again. It goes to show that history, in many ways, has also been defined by strong women.". Please try again later. Follow Robert Benz on Twitter @DouglassFamily. Please contact Find a Grave at support@findagrave.com if you need help resetting your password. It was August 1941 and the menacing shadow of World War II, which had already eclipsed much of the world, now threatened America. Frederick and Nettie were married three months after they met. When she's not being protected, it's time to demand change. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. ". 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Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. She found that the scales of justice were weighted on the side of the perpetrators. Also an additional 2 volunteers within fifty miles. Every little girl, however, is equally as precious and must be protected, if not by loving parents, by her community, her state or the laws of her nation. The second is to ensure that women and girls are educated and have choices where their own futures are concerned. Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. I recently represented a victim of sex trafficking who was a minor. Try again. Together, they all did their best to make up for that which had been lost. Now, walking across campus, on course for what could be termed an impossibly random celestial event, he -- deep in thought, stroking his Clark Gable mustache, she -- in a hurry to connect with old friends, they -- the progeny of two of America's most influential leaders... collided. ©2020 Verizon Media. 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Human trafficking victims deserve support and so I lend my voice to the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation and their campaign to prevent this crime. Mrs Douglass was a volunteer worker with the Red Cross of Bethesda Naval Hospital and advisor on the Frederick Douglass Scholarship Fund at American University. Frederick Douglass III by name, he was the great grandson and namesake of the famed abolitionist, journalist and orator. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. or don't show this again—I am good at figuring things out. Her smile was more like that of a Hollywood starlet. Try again later. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. Together, they all did their best to make up for that which had been lost. GREAT NEWS! Ms. Douglass is now Chairwoman for the Atlanta-based public charity, the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation. What tears at my heart is that the largest numbers of those being exploited for sex and for labor are girls and women. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? × Netting Washington, 65, Kin of B. T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, DiesMrs.

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