"Despite of it all, the Negro remains … cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful."
— Frederick Douglass

January 1, 1970

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Civil rights activistsEditors from the United StatesAbolitionistsPublishers from the United StatesJournalists from Maryland
Original Language: English

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Speech on the twenty - first anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1883).