Say it loud : great speeches on civil rights and African American identity

Author

Catherine Ellis

Call Number

• 323.1196 S2741 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.

Physical Description

xii, 287 p. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)

Contents

• "The ballot or the bullet," 1964 / Malcolm X
• "The Black revolution and the White backlash," 1964 / Lorraine Hansberry
• Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 / Ossie Davis
• "Where do we go from here?" 1967 / Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968 / Roy Wilkins
• Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 / Benjamin E. Mays
• Speech delivered at memorial service for Bobby Hutton, 1968 / Kathleen Cleaver
• Speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968 / Bobby Seale
• Speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968 / Ella Baker
• Speech at Howard University, 1969 / Shirley Chisholm
• Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972 / Angela Y. Davis
• Speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978 / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
• Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979 / Dorothy I. Height
• "The relationship of the Christian faith to political praxis," 1980 / James H. Cone
• Nobel Prize lecture, 1993 / Toni Morrison
• Commencement address at Howard University, 1994 / Colin Powell
• "One hundredth anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson," 1996 / Mary Frances Berry
• "America : a nation of equals," 1998 / Ward Connerly
• Speech to National Council of Negro Women, 2001 / Condoleezza Rice
• "Youth and the political process," 2003 / Maxine Waters
• "America beyond the color line," 2004 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• "Has the Black middle class lost its mind?" 2005 / Michael Eric Dyson
• "A more perfect union," 2008 / Barack Obama.