Say it loud
Subtitle: great speeches on civil rights and African American identity
By: edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781595581136
Subjects: Race relations; African American orators; Race identity; Civil rights; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; Sources; Civil rights movements; African Americans; Biography; History
Description: Collects the text and audio recordings of famous African American political speeches, by individuals ranging from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "The ballot or the bullet," 1964 / Malcolm X; title: "The Black revolution and the White backlash," 1964 / Lorraine Hansberry; title: Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 / Ossie Davis; title: "Where do we go from here?" 1967 / Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: Speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968 / Roy Wilkins; title: Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 / Benjamin E. Mays; title: Speech delivered at memorial service for Bobby Hutton, 1968 / Kathleen Cleaver; title: Speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968 / Bobby Seale; title: Speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968 / Ella Baker; title: Speech at Howard University, 1969 / Shirley Chisholm; title: Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972 / Angela Y. Davis; title: Speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978 / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.; title: Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979 / Dorothy I. Height; title: "The relationship of the Christian faith to political praxis," 1980 / James H. Cone; title: Nobel Prize lecture, 1993 / Toni Morrison; title: Commencement address at Howard University, 1994 / Colin Powell; title: "One hundredth anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson," 1996 / Mary Frances Berry; title: "America : a nation of equals," 1998 / Ward Connerly; title: Speech to National Council of Negro Women, 2001 / Condoleezza Rice; title: "Youth and the political process," 2003 / Maxine Waters; title: "America beyond the color line," 2004 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; title: "Has the Black middle class lost its mind?" 2005 / Michael Eric Dyson; title: "A more perfect union," 2008 / Barack Obama.