Spend Independence Day with Pete Seeger and Frederick Douglass

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This Fourth of July, “Democracy Now!” remembers Frederick Douglass’ defiant Independence Day address, read by James Earl Jones during a performance of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States, and the life and legacy of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, who died this year at the age of 94.

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