Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California is now featuring a new video installation on the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass in honor of Black History Month.
The 9-minute documentary, co-created by Disney and National Geographic, is playing at the park’s Main Street Opera House for The Disneyland Story presenting Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln exhibit.
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken on November 8, 1863, 11 days before his famed Gettysburg Address. (Public Domain)
The documentary details Douglass’s life as a former slave who rose to be a powerful leader in the anti-slavery movement and his friendship with Lincoln.
The video adds to the park’s Douglass installation from last year in which the abolitionist’s bust and portrait were installed in the Opera House lobby next to those of Lincoln, whose story has been told since the attraction opened in 1965….