Dr. Lester Brooks, emeritus professor of American history at Anne Arundel Community College, explains "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?," an 1852 speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who himself had once been enslaved. You can find the entire civil rights series on demand on the Center for Civic Education's website as part of our Civil Discourse: An American Legacy curriculum here: https://www.civiced.org/civil-discourse/module-civil-rights/podcasts-and-videos | Center for Civic Ed
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Dr. Lester Brooks, emeritus professor of American history at Anne Arundel Community College, explains "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?," an 1852 speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who himself had once been enslaved. You can find the entire civil rights series on demand on the Center for Civic Education's website as part of our Civil Discourse: An American Legacy curriculum here: https://www.civiced.org/civil-discourse/module-civil-rights/podcasts-and-videos | Center for Civic Ed
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