Frederick Douglass actor sets area stops
CHAMPAIGN – Actor Fred Morsell will visit Champaign libraries on Sunday and Monday to portray 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Morsell will recreate some of the escaped slave's most famous speeches and highlight the history and life lessons they contain.
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