There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

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In his famous 1852 speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” Frederick Douglass made a similar point. “Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious libe ...

Advertisement On Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton held a rally in the nation's capital starting at noon at Washington's Metropolitan AME Church where Frederick ... speech. "I would hope the 4th of July ...

Frederick Douglass (1816-1895), the former slave and abolitionist ... but after years of research he changed his thinking completely. In a July Fourth speech in 1852, he called the U.S. Constitution ...

Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...