"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were ...

NPR released a powerful video featuring a number of Frederick Douglass’ great, great, great (and great) grandchildren reading his “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” speech ...

Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist and orator, Frederick ... printing of Douglass’ famous speech: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” ...