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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