29 Apr 1927
Babinský
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Frederick Douglass: An American Life
This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Top Billed Cast
Hugh Morgan Frederick Douglass
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney Anna Douglass
Ebony Jo-Ann Harriet Tubman
Stephanie Berry Rosetta Douglass
Janet Ellis Julia Griffith
Lee Moore John Brown
Jacqueline Scates Helen Pitts Douglass
Don Plumley Hern
Charles Reid Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Wooten Jr. Frederick (Little Boy)
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