The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Courtesy of PBS, read a transcript of a speech given by Frederick Douglass in July of 1852, almost a decade before the Civil War broke out.
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Courtesy of PBS, read a transcript of a speech given by Frederick Douglass in July of 1852, almost a decade before the Civil War broke out.