"Meaning of the 4th of July for the Negro": Reading Frederick Douglass

Past event
Jun 30, 2016, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

Thursday, June 30
630pm at the Plainfield Opera House

Join us in a communal reading of the fiery July 5, 1852, speech in which the great abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass took exception to being asked to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Discussion and refreshments to follow.

Co-sponsored by: Central Vermont Showing Up for Racial Justice, Justice for All, Town of Plainfield, Cutler Memorial Library, and the Plainfield Historical Society.

For more info visit: http://www.vermonthumanities.org/reading-frederick-douglass/

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