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Article: Civil Rights: What To African-Americans Is The Fourth of July?
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- July 6, 1994
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Bernice Powell Jackson
Washington Informer
07-06-1994
Civil Rights: What To African-Americans Is The Fourth of July?.
By Bernice Powell Jackson
Thirteen years before the Emancipation Proclamation Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist and orator, delivered a Fourth of July speech in which he pointed out the hypocrisy of this country's celebration of Independence Day while it still held millions in bondage. This year, as the whole world has celebrated the freedom of South Africa, African Americans have had a bittersweet feeling of joy for our brothers and sisters in South Africa and sadness that 131 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, we still are not free in our own country.
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