Following in Douglass’ Footsteps
By Anne Mattina Professor, Stonehill College Reading Frederick Douglass Together Research Fellow This program is made possible by a grant from Mass Humanities, which provided funding through “A More Perfect Union,” a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Last spring I was the proud recipient of a Reading Frederick Douglass Together Fellowship […]
Fitchburg Douglass reading channels abolitionist energy
Upwards of 80 community members, families, ROTC cadets, volunteers, and legislators gathered in Fitchburg’s Abolitionist Park on June 19 to read Frederick Douglass’ influential address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The reading marks the first Reading Frederick Douglass Together program to take place at the park. “I feel like we’re all […]
