Memorial Day originated as Decoration Day, an occasion to honor the fallen soldiers of the Civil War. Douglass' 1871 speech may be the greatest-ever address associated with this occasion.

Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...

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

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 168 years ago.

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass made a speech about Independence Day that was louder than any fireworks. Delivered in 1852 and known by a question that Douglass posed halfway through, “What, to ...

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

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.

“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 ...

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton & Upton and the Grafton Public Library are hosting a public reading on July 5 ...