Teacher Workshop
Frederick Douglass from the National Mall to Cedar Hill
New Date: January 25, 2025
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Free | For Educators of Grades K-12
This event will include stairs in a historic home, steps on and off a yellow school bus, and some walking and standing outside.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Seventy-six years later, Frederick Douglass laid bare the betrayal of those ideals as he asked, “Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?” Join Ford’s Education and the National Park Service on a journey through Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and the Jefferson Memorial as we examine Douglass’s famous speech, What to the Slave is the 4th of July, and consider the unfinished work of achieving America’s ideals of a more perfect union.
Bus transportation will be provided between Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and the Jefferson Memorial.
Participants may request a letter certifying three (3) hours of professional development.
Itinerary
| 9:30 a.m. | Meet at Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1411 W St SE, Washington, DC 20020 |
| Bus to Jefferson Memorial | |
| Tour Jefferson Memorial | |
| Bus to Frederick Douglass National Historic Site | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Tour and Discussion of What to the Slave is the Fourth of July |
| 12:30 p.m. | Program Concludes |
This program was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MA-252940-OMS-23].