Casey Lartigue Jr. is co-editor of “Educational Freedom in Urban America: Brown v. Board of Education after half a century” and co-author with Songmi Han of her memoir “Greenlight to Freedom.” He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association from 2004 to 2015. He is now chairman of Freedom Speakers International in South Korea, a non-profit that has empowered 600 North Korean refugees with English, public speaking and career development.

He has written this essay for FAIR in commemoration of the 206th birthday of Frederick Douglass.

Casey appeared at a FAIR in Education online event inn February, 2024.  Check our Youtube channel for the video soon.