Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
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Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
This edition
"Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches" . Ed. Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith. New York: New Press, 2005. xxv+254 pp. + 2 audio discs.
Table of contents
Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith / Preface
Acknowledgments
James Oliver Horton / Introduction
• Booker T. Washington / Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895
• Marcus Garvey / Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921
• Mary McLeod Bethune / What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? 1939
• Walter White / Speech at NAACP Annual Convention, 1947
• Charles Hamilton Houston / Personal Recording, 1949
• Thurgood Marshall / Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in "Cooper v. Aaron", 1958
• Howard Thurman / Community and the Self, 1961
• Dick Gregory / Speech at St. John's Baptist Church, 1963
• Fannie Lou Hamer / Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, 1964
• Stokely Carmichael / Speech at University of California, Berkeley, 1966
• Martin Luther King, Jr. / I've Been to the Mountaintop, 1968
• John Hope Franklin / Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, 1969
• Shirley Chisholm / The Black Woman in Contemporary America, 1974
• Barbara Jordan / Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings, 1974
• Benjamin L. Hooks / Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1978
• Joseph Lowery / The Black Presence in America, 1980
• Louis Farrakhan / Address to the National Press Club, 1984
• Jesse Jackson / Keep Hope Alive : Democratic National Convention, 1988
• Johnetta B. Cole / Defending Our Name, 1994
• Lani Guinier / Different Voices, Common Talk : Why We Need a National Conversation about Race, 1994
• Clarence Thomas / Be Not Afraid, 2001
• Randall Robinson / The Debt and the Reckoning, 2002
• Julian Bond / The Broken Promise of Brown, 2004
Notes
Permissions
Acknowledgments
James Oliver Horton / Introduction
• Booker T. Washington / Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895
• Marcus Garvey / Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921
• Mary McLeod Bethune / What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? 1939
• Walter White / Speech at NAACP Annual Convention, 1947
• Charles Hamilton Houston / Personal Recording, 1949
• Thurgood Marshall / Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in "Cooper v. Aaron", 1958
• Howard Thurman / Community and the Self, 1961
• Dick Gregory / Speech at St. John's Baptist Church, 1963
• Fannie Lou Hamer / Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, 1964
• Stokely Carmichael / Speech at University of California, Berkeley, 1966
• Martin Luther King, Jr. / I've Been to the Mountaintop, 1968
• John Hope Franklin / Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, 1969
• Shirley Chisholm / The Black Woman in Contemporary America, 1974
• Barbara Jordan / Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings, 1974
• Benjamin L. Hooks / Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1978
• Joseph Lowery / The Black Presence in America, 1980
• Louis Farrakhan / Address to the National Press Club, 1984
• Jesse Jackson / Keep Hope Alive : Democratic National Convention, 1988
• Johnetta B. Cole / Defending Our Name, 1994
• Lani Guinier / Different Voices, Common Talk : Why We Need a National Conversation about Race, 1994
• Clarence Thomas / Be Not Afraid, 2001
• Randall Robinson / The Debt and the Reckoning, 2002
• Julian Bond / The Broken Promise of Brown, 2004
Notes
Permissions
See also
• "Say It Plain; Say It Loud." "American Radio Works"
Item Number
A0393