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Gov. Chris Sununu recently signed a law retroactively declaring May 21 as Ona Judge Staines Day. While the law only applies to 2022, Sununu said he is committed to proclaiming the holiday every year he is governor.
A group of about 50 people gathered at Teixeira Park on Union Street in Peterborough Friday to read from an abridged version of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” delivered on July 5 that year.Peterborough.
Peterborough is one of 12 towns taking part in the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire’s annual Frederick Douglass Community Reading Friday, July 1, at noon, at Teixeira Park on Union Street.In “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” otherwise.