60-Second Civics Podcast

60-Second Civics: Episode 4978, Frederick Douglass's Speech: Civil Rights, Part 2 (rebroadcast)

09.19.2023 - By Center for Civic EducationPlay

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How does Frederick Douglass's speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?," capture the struggle for civil rights before the Civil War? Dr. Lester Brooks, emeritus professor of American history at Anne Arundel Community College, explains the 1852 speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who himself had one been enslaved.

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