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Attendees included the families of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Sally Hemings, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Emmett Till.
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts
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With the bust, Federick Douglass takes his place as a founding father in the chamber and offers some balance in a State House that honors people who are predominantly white, leaving out the stories of countless people of color, Senate President Karen Spilka said.
Douglass is a famed abolitionist who is known to have freed more than 400 slaves.