‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth of July?’: 168 Years Later, Descendants of Frederick Douglass Read His Speech | NPR

Posted on August 16, 2020 by agogo22

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The U.S. celebrates this July 4 amid nationwide protests and calls for systemic reforms. We asked five young descendants of Frederick Douglass to read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” which asks all of us to consider America’s long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans.

 

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