The Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality

Visit the library to view a virtual talk on the big screen in the Friends of the Library room. 

This virtual talk is hosted by the National Constitution Center in celebration of Black History Month. Scholars Lucas Morel and Melvin Rogers join to discuss how African American leaders and citizens, such as Prince Hall, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. have invoked the ideas and principles of the Declaration of Independence throughout American history to push for a more free and equal America. Thomas Donnelly, chief scholar of the National Constitution Center, moderates.