num_pages: 254
description: - The only known recordings of speeches by Booker T. Washington (1903) and Marcus Garvey (1921)- Mary McLeod Bethune answering the question, "What does democracy mean to me?" (1939)- Dick Gregory describing his experience being locked in a Birmingham Jail (1963)- Barbara Jordan's defense of the U.S. Constitution during Nixon's Impeachment hearings (1974)
language: English
title: Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
titlecomplete: Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
genres: History, African American
ratings_count: 42
publisher: The New Press