Please join us for this annual communal reading of the fiery July 5, 1852, speech in which Frederick Douglass took exception to being asked to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Co-sponsored by: Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School — Community Change, Inc. — Boston NAACP — Jewish Voice for Peace – Boston — The Bostonian Society — Epicenter Community — Mass Humanities — William Monroe Trotter Institute — Royall House and Slave Quarters — Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights — Massachusetts Association of Human Rights Commissions — YWCA Cambridge — Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket — Medford Human Rights Commission — Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry — Boston African American National Historic Site — New Democracy Coalition — Dream Boston — Boston Pan American Forum — Cambridge YWCA — Central Square Theater