Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down on the Anniversary of His ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July’ Speech
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave an iconic speech in Rochester, N.Y., in which he asked a question that is still relevant to Black people 168 years later: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" On Sunday in Rochester-on the anniversary of the day Douglass delivered his speech-a statue of the 19th-century...