Happy 5th of July

On July 5, 1852 at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration. Douglass asked: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The celebrated orator was the most photographed American in the 19th century. For an African American in 2026, “[t]his Fourth of July … Continue reading Happy 5th of July →