Great Speeches by African Americans
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Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass Sojourner Truth W. E. B. Du Bois Martin Luther King Jr. and... Read more
Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass Sojourner Truth W. E. B. Du Bois Martin Luther King Jr. and other influential figures in the history of African-A.. Read less
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Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass Sojourner Truth W. E. B. Du Bois Martin Luther King Jr. and other influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics.
The collection begins with Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" followed by Jermain Wesley Loguen's "I Am a Fugitive Slave" the famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass's immortal "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Subsequent orators include John Sweat Rock John M. Langston James T. Rapier Alexander Crummell Booker T. Washington Mary Church Terrell Ida B. Wells-Barnett Francis J. Grimké Marcus Garvey and Mary McLeod Bethune. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech appears here along with Malcolm X's "The Ballot or The Bullet" Shirley Chisholm's "The Black Woman in Contemporary America" "The Constitution: A Living Document" by Thurgood Marshall and Barack Obama's "Knox College Commencement Address."
The collection begins with Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" followed by Jermain Wesley Loguen's "I Am a Fugitive Slave" the famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass's immortal "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Subsequent orators include John Sweat Rock John M. Langston James T. Rapier Alexander Crummell Booker T. Washington Mary Church Terrell Ida B. Wells-Barnett Francis J. Grimké Marcus Garvey and Mary McLeod Bethune. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech appears here along with Malcolm X's "The Ballot or The Bullet" Shirley Chisholm's "The Black Woman in Contemporary America" "The Constitution: A Living Document" by Thurgood Marshall and Barack Obama's "Knox College Commencement Address."
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Subject: Language Arts
Brand: Dover Publications
Publisher Date: 04/28/2006
Author: James Daley, ed.
Dimensions: 8.50 x 5.38
UPC: 9780486447612
Pages: 150
