Making A Day Of Protest

Topgold Audio Clips · Jul 5, 2018 · 1m

Sharing thoughts from Holly Jackson on 4 July Dr. Jackson is at work on a book about 19th-century radical movements in the United States. Jackson writes in NYT. "How do you celebrate Independence Day? A cookout? Maybe take the kids to a parade? "William Lloyd Garrison, the 19th-century abolitionist, had a different idea for how to observe the holiday. Every flag should be either taken down or flown at half-staff, he wrote in his newspaper, The Liberator, and 'all signs of exultation, parade and boasting should be studiously suppressed.' The usual rounds of celebratory music, marching and…