By Dr. Crystal A. deGregor Born enslaved, African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass was never afforded the privilege of formal education. But if he had been, I like to believe he would have called a historically Black college or university his intellectual home. Much like them, he was powered by the conviction that literacy—secured through self-determination—was a transformative tool in the head, hands, and heart of Black people. Nearly a century and three-quarters later, his 1852 speech still speaks: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” Written a full decade before the first wave of Black educational institutions
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