Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 170 years ago.

In a little-known speech, Frederick Douglass sketched a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Douglass, subject of a new film, spoke with uncanny precision about ...

ArtsConnect hosts a community reading of Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro" speech.

Frederick Douglass in a sixth-plate daguerreotype, circa 1850. A new exhibit shows how the abolitionist crafted his image. (Mark Gulezian/National Portrait Gallery) ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass ...

"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

While Douglass is best-known for arguing for racial equality within the United States, he also argued, in his 1869 "Composite Nation" speech (a critique of then-growing calls for restricting ...

“Douglass is reminding us of fundamental contradictions that we live with every day,” said David Harris, former managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at ...

It was on July 5, 1852, that Frederick Douglass addressed the Ladies’ Antislavery Society in Rochester, N.Y., and delivered what is often described as the greatest abolitionist speech in US history.

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’s ...

Materials: Student handout with excerpts from Rep. Justin Pearson and Frederick Douglass's speeches about the Fourth of July. Timeline on the History of Independence Day; News clip about the ...