Frederick Douglass

Part 1: 3 Videos
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Biography

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History Channel


-----> Part 2: Podcast Click here to listen to Podcast:
"July 4, 2003 Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement and the first black citizen to hold high rank in the federal government, as U.S. minister to Haiti.

On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester, N.Y.'s Corinthian Hall."

From the Tavis Smiley Show, Ben Guillary, producing/artistic director of the Los Angeles-based Robey Theatre Company, reads an excerpt from Douglass' speech,
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro."
Link from: http://www.npr.org/2003/07/04/1319240/frederick-douglass

Part 3: Reflection Questions

1.What do you think was the most impressive part of Frederick Douglass's life?

2. Do you agree with Frederick Douglass speech?

3. Do you think there is still hypocrisy in what American? If so how?