Ripples of hope [electronic resource] : great American civil rights speeches /
Gottheimer, Josh.
Credo Reference (Firm)
New York [N.Y.] : Basic Civitas Books,
2003
Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure. With voices as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Betty Friedan, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, this anthology constitutes a unique chronicle of the nation's civil rights movements and the critical issues they've tackled, from slavery and suffrage to immigration and affirmative action. This is an indispensable compilation of the words --the ripples of hope--that, collectively, have changed American history.
Includes index.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Early America, early dissent 1789-1865. Blood and slavery / A free Negro ; The curse of slavery / Gouverneur Morris ; This is our country / Peter Williams, Jr. ; An address at the African Masonic Hall / Maria W. Stewart ; Address to the Massachusetts Legislature / Angelina Grimke� ; Loosening the bonds of prejudice / Sara T. Smith ; Defending the Amistad slaves / John Quincy Adams ; An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet ; Address at Seneca Falls / Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Ar'n't I a woman / Sojourner Truth ; What to the slave is the Fourth of July / Frederick Douglass ; No compromise with the evil of slavery / William Lloyd Garrison ; Leave women, then, to find their sphere / Lucy Stone ; On seizing land from Native Californians / Pablo de la Guerra ; A house divided / Abraham Lincoln ; No consciousness of guilt / John Brown ; A day to celebrate Emancipation / Jonathan Gibbs ; Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln ; In praise of labor / Booker T. Washington --
Measured Gains : two steps forward, one step backward 1866-1949. We are all bound up together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; The myth of "yellow peril" / Frederick Douglas ; Suffrage and the working woman / Susan B. Anthony ; Half free, half slave / James T. Rapier ; Unsung heroes / Rev. L.T. Chamberlain ; The first African-American governor / P.B.S. Pinchback ; The queens of womanhood / Alexander Crummell ; Man cannot speak for her / Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Women's political future / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; A call for black women / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin ; The Atlanta Compromise / Booker T. Washington ; Training Negroes for social power / W.E.B. Du Bois ; The progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell ; The last, hard fight / Carrie Chapman Catt ; A moral partnership legitimized / Woodrow Wilson ; A defense of Japanese Americans / John P. Irish ; Crusade for women's birth control / Margaret Sanger ; Defending Mexican Americans / Alonso S. Perales ; A separate nation / Marcus Garvey ; A last word before incarceration / Marcus Garvey ; A Negro nation within a nation / W.E.B. Du Bois ; Fighting words / James Omura ; Desegregating the military / A. Philip Randolph ; A cloud of suspicion / Carey McWilliams ; Jim Crow army / Bayard Rustin ; No compromises / Hubert Humphrey ; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Eleanor Roosevelt --
Civil rights era : lift every voice 1950-1969. Dismantling segregation: Brown v. Board of Education / Thurgood Marshall ; Montgomery bus boycott / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; The homosexual faces a challenge / Ken Burns ; Federal Court orders must be upheld / Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Civil rights message / John F. Kennedy ; I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; We must free ourselves / John Lewis ; Sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act / Howard "Judge" Smith ; The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X ; A long, long way to go / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Brotherhood among ourselves / Malcolm X ; We shall overcome ; To fulfill these rights / Lyndon B. Johnson ; Day of affirmation address / Robert F. Kennedy ; Furthering the homophile movement / Franklin Kameny ; Black power / Stokely Carmichael ; The silent people no longer / Joseph M. Montoya ; The land grant question / Reies Lo�pez Tijerina ; Breaking bread for progress / Ce�sar Cha�vez ; I've been to the mountaintop / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; On Martin Luther King's death / Robert F. Kennedy ; From expatriation to emancipation / Daniel Inouye ; The real sexual revolution / Betty Friedan ; This is no land of cynics / Henry B. Gonza�lez ; Chicano nationalism / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales ; Take destiny into your own hands / Karla Jay --
Current struggle : slow but steady progress 1970-1998. A Chicano defined / Jose� Angel Gutie�rrez ; Roe v. Wade: legalizing abortion / Sarah Weddington ; You can do it / Patricia Schroeder ; Recognition NOW / Phyllis Lyon ; America should admit its guilt / Robert "Spark" Matsunaga ; Tired of the silence / Harvey Milk ; That a past wrong be admitted / Clifford Uyeda ; Our time has come / Jesse Jackson ; We organized / Ce�sar Cha�vez ; Acting up / Larry Kramer ; Creating change / Virginia Ipso ; What gay consciousness brings / Harry Hay ; Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas / Anita Hill ; The story of self-hatred / David Mixner ; Seeking a conversation on race / Lani Guinier ; The freedom to die / William J. Clinton ; We are at war / Sister Souljah ; Rejecting racial hatred / Colin Powell ; The two faces of American immigration / Raul Yzaguirre ; A million men marching on / Louis Farrakhan ; Consciousness is power / Yuri Kochiyama ; Protecting same-sex marriage / Barney Frank ; A shining and powerful dream / Kweisi Mfume ; Seneca Falls: 150 years later / Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure. With voices as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Betty Friedan, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, this anthology constitutes a unique chronicle of the nation's civil rights movements and the critical issues they've tackled, from slavery and suffrage to immigration and affirmative action. This is an indispensable compilation of the words --the ripples of hope--that, collectively, have changed American history.
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