July 4, 2021 Dear Friends of Hallie Q. Brown, On July 5th, 1852, Frederick Douglass, delivered his speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, NY. He’d been invited by the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, to give a July 4th speech, he opted to speak on the 5th instead. […]
100 Years Later: Tulsa and the History of America
Dear Friends of Hallie Q. Brown, It has been 100 years and we are only now, as a country, beginning to learn the truth of one of the most horrific events of racial violence in America’s history, the Tulsa Massacre. On May 30, 1921, a 19 year-old Black shoe shiner, took a break from his […]
