| January 6, 1832 William Lloyd Garrison, along with 15 others, founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society at the African Meeting House in Boston.  William Lloyd Garrison By 1833, Garrison helped establish the American Anti-Slavery Society with fellow abolitionists Arthur Tappan, Lewis Tappan, and Theodore Dwight Weld. This organization sent lecturers across the North to convince whites of slavery’s brutality. Garrison went on to be publisher of The Liberator, a newspaper dedicated to education about, and the abolition of, slavery. He published it until passage of the 13th Amendment which made the practice unconstitutional. Read about the Anti-Slavery Society today About William Lloyd Garrison |
| January 6, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his 1941 State of the Union address, introduced the idea of the “Four Freedoms”: freedom of speech and expression; freedom of every person to worship God in his own way; freedom from want; and freedom from fear.  Excerpt from his speech to the Joint Session of Congress The full text (pdf) |
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