"Frederick Douglass, 'Why Hold a Colored Convention?'" A Colored Conventions (CCP) Production (2019)
Channel: Colored Conventions Project
Date: 2019-04-22

Frederick Douglass, 'Why Hold a Colored Convention?' is a Colored Conventions (CCP) Production 2019

Featuring: 
Hassan El-Amin as Frederick Douglass

Produced, directed and edited by
by datejie cheko green 

Filmed, recorded and co-edited 
by John Palmer

Co-Directed by Denise G. Burgher, 
Chair of the CCP Historic Church and 
Community Outreach Committee 

Adapted from Frederick Douglass’ 
original 1883 address by 
Denise G. Burgher, and by 
CCP Co-Directors Jim Casey and
P. Gabrielle Foreman.

Filmed on location at Gore Recital Hall,
University of Delaware, in Newark, DE.
Special thanks to Jennifer M. Barker
and the University of Delaware
Department of Music.

Funding Provided by AARP Delaware and 
the Posner-Wallace Foundation.

Digitized and scanned copies of Douglass’ 
full, original 1883 address are available, 
free to the public, in the following formats:

The pamphlet of Douglass' full speech, 
published in Louisville, KY, in 1883 by the 
Courier-Journal Job Printing Company

The transcribed, text-searchable speech is 
published by the Colored Conventions Project
https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/554

For more info:
Email: coloredconventions@gmail.com
Web: http://coloredconventions.org
Twitter: @CCP_org

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CCP Productions 2019 - Creative Commons License
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