Upcoming Events
Friday, July 5, 2024
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Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale & Slavery | 12:00am |
Shining Light on Truth presents evidence of the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale. It celebrates Black resistance and community building. |
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Readings of the Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Oration | 4:00pm to 5:30pm |
To mark Independence Day 2024, the Beinecke Library continues its tradition of public readings on July 5 at 4pm on the library mezzanine of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, and of the oration by Frederick Douglass given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, in which he asked: “ |