In the Kusler-Cox Auditorium on the 3rd floor of Rundel Memorial Building is a lecture by Nancy Hewitt titled Radical Friends: Amy Post and Frederick Douglass.

The fugitive slave Frederick Douglass and the radical Quaker Amy Post forged a close friendship in the 1840s, joining forces to challenge racial and gender injustice. Such interracial friendships were rare in the nineteenth century, and even more so between men and women. Over the next four decades, their bond would be tested by ideological, religious, and political differences as struggles over abolition, racial equality, women's rights, and civil war raged across the country. Despite such challenges and two brief periods of estrangement, they remained friends until Amy's death in 1889. In this talk, Nancy Hewitt will explore the complex relationship between these two activists and what it can tell us about the power of friendship in pursuit of radical change.

[source: City of Rochester website, 2018-Nov-28]