11.03B.A.5 - Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
Inquiry Question
Why would marginalized people be critical of celebrating the early United States?
Learning Objective
Students will evaluate critical views on early US history by analyzing and comparing two different documents, one from Frederick Douglass and the other from a modern BLM activist, concerning celebrating the 4th of July.
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