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Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury Smith
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Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet,” 1964
2. Lorraine Hansberry: “The Black Revolution and the White Backlash,” 1964
3. Ossie Davis: Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965
4. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Where Do We Go from Here?” 1967
5. Roy Wilkins: Speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968
6. Benjamin E Mays: Eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr. 1968
7. Kathleen Cleaver: Speech delivered at Memorial Service for Bobby Hutton, 1968
8. Bobby Seale: Speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968
9. Ella Baker: Speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968
10. Shirley Chisholm: Speech at Howard University, 1969
11. Angela Y Davis: Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972
12. Vernon E Jordan Jr.: Speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978
13. Dorothy I . Height: Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979
14. James H . Cone: “The Relationship of the Christian Faith to Political Praxis,” 1980
15. Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize Lecture, 1993
16. Colin Powell: Commencement Address at Howard University, 1994
17. Mary Frances Berry: One Hundredth Anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson,” 1996
18. Ward Connerly: “America: A Nation of Equals,” 1998
19. Condoleezza Rice: Speech to National Council of Negro Women, 2001
20. Maxine Waters: “Youth and the Political Process,” 2003
21. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: “America Beyond the Color Line,” 2004
22. Michael Eric Dyson: “Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?” 2005
23. Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union,” 2008
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Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury Smith
Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
