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Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others

Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others

Biographical Note: James Daley is the editor of several Dover editions, including The World's Greatest Short Stories, Classic Crime Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, and Great Writers on the Art of...

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Biographical Note:
James Daley is the editor of several Dover editions, including The World's Greatest Short Stories, Classic Crime Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, and Great Writers on the Art of Fiction.

Table of Contents:
Henry Highland Garnet An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1843)
Jermain Wesley Loguen I Am a Fugitive Slave (1850)
Sojourner Truth Ain't I a Woman? (1851)
Frederick Douglass What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? (1852)
John Sweat Rock A Deep and Cruel Prejudice (1862)
John Mercer Langston Equality Before the Law (1874)
James T. Rapier The Civil Rights Bill (1875)
Alexander Crummell The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and and Her Needs (1883)
Booker T. Washington Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
W. E. B. Du Bois To the Nations of the World (1900)
Mary Church Terrell What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States (1906)
Francis J. Grimké Equality of Rights for All Citizens: Black and White, Alike (1909)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett This Awful Slaughter (1909)
Marcus Garvey The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1922)
Mary McLeod Bethune What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? (1939)
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream (1963)
Malcolm X The Ballot or The Bullet (1964)
Shirley Chisholm The Black Woman in Contemporary America (1974)
Thurgood Marshall The Constitution: A Living Document (1987)
Barack Obama Knox College Commencement Address (2005)

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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."

Author: Daley, James
Publisher: Dover Publications
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2006-04-28
BISAC: Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African American & Black Studies|Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech & Pronunciation
Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., American|African American authors|African Americans|History|African American orators
Weight: 0.28 lbs
ISBN: 9780486447612
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780486447612

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