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Reading Frederick Douglass Together

Reading Frederick Douglass Together grants offer up to $1,800 for public readings and discussions in Massachusetts of the orator's famous address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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EMS is paused for 2026

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Reading Frederick Douglass Together

Reading Frederick Douglass Together grants offer up to $1,800 for public readings and discussions in Massachusetts of the orator's famous address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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January 2, 2026
Deadline
February 20, 2026
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