A 66-foot-tall banner with an image of Frederick Douglass and his statement from the commencement address to the campus has been recently installed on Case Western Reserve University’s Triangle Building. The statement reads: “The relation subsisting between the white and black people of this country is the vital question of the age.”

The banner commemorates the address of Frederick Douglas to the graduating class of Western Reserve College over 168 years ago, in July 1854. Douglass was an abolitionist, author, and orator. The banner was commissioned by Case Western Reserve’s Putnam Collection and designed by Cleveland-based graphic artist and activist John Brown VI.

Read more in The Daily: https://thedaily.case.edu/banner-installation-celebrates-campus-address-of-famed-abolitionist/