The speech is called “Composite Nation ... Entitled “Becoming Frederick Douglass,” the film looks at how a man born into slavery became one of the nation’s most influential leaders.

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 169 years ...

Subsequent and lesser-known speeches in 1862 and 1875 track the ... whose biography "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" is coming out in October. Douglass was in his 30s when he spoke in ...

Frederick Douglass needed to see Lincoln. Would the president meet with a former enslaved person? “He said in his speeches this is a golden opportunity to destroy slavery and remake the United ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... Douglass overcame his nervousness and gave a stirring, eloquent speech about his life as a slave. Douglass would continue to give speeches for the ...

Frederick Douglass's 1871 Decoration Day speech, delivered at Arlington National Cemetery, may be the greatest-ever address associated with this occasion. In the process, he also offered valuable ...

“What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass asked in a historic speech nearly 200 years ago, and Boston readers asked the same again to a crowd gathered in Downtown ...

a Union Army reenactor from Dorchester who read parts of the speech while in uniform. Grimes said he tries to be a part of the reading to promote its words. “Frederick Douglass knew what he said was ...

Frederick Douglass spoke these words in his Elmira speech on Aug. 3, 1880, in Grove Park (Hoffman’s Grove). Mr. Douglass was the honored speaker of the African American people in Elmira ...

Bristol Black Collective will present a public reading of an iconic Frederick Douglass speech at Heritage State Park. What's ...