Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down on the Anniversary of His ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July’ Speech
by Zack Linly from on (#55EC9)
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...