Douglass' iconic 1852 speech on July 4th remains a powerful lens on America's unfinished promise of freedom and equality for Black Americans.
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?" Frederick Douglass asked white America in 1852. The answer remains stubbornly elusive 172 years later.
In keeping with Frederick Douglass' question of what the Fourth of July meant to slaves, NewsOne hit the streets to ask everyday people what Independence Day means to them.