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

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

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"Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others" . Ed. James Daley. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006. viii+150 pp.

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? (1850)
● 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 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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A0400

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