a century of great African American speechesEllis, Catherine1964-Smith, Stephen1960-textbibliographyAnthologie.nyuNew YorkNew Pressc20052005monographiceng

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xxv, 254 p. ; 24 cm. + 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)Accompanying CDs have digitally remastered recordings of the original speeches."From Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm, Say It Plain gives listeners and readers a portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. Most of these actual recordings of speeches by the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, spiritual, and political figures have been tucked away in archives and libraries, and are presented here for the first time here. Together, the set captures an incomparable tradition of oratory, and includes some of the most powerful public speeches of the past century."--BOOK JACKET.Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895 / Booker T. Washington -- Explanation of the objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921 / Marcus Garvey -- What does American democracy mean to me? 1939 / Mary McLeod Bethune -- Speech at NAACP annual convention, 1947 / Walter White -- Personal recording, 1949 / Charles Hamilton Houston -- Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Cooper v. Aaron, 1958 / Thurgood Marshall -- Community and the self, 1961 / Howard Thurman -- Speech at St. John's Baptist church, 1963 / Dick Gregory -- Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, 1964 / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Speech at University of California, Berkeley, 1966 / Stokely Carmichael -- I've been to the mountaintop, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, 1969 / John Hope Franklin -- The Black woman in contemporary America, 1974 / Shirley Chisholm -- Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, 1974 / Barbara Jordan -- Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1978 / Benjamin L. Hooks -- The Black presence in America, 1980 / Joseph Lowery -- Address to the National Press Club, 1984 / Louis Farrakhan -- Keep hope alive : Democratic National Convention, 1988 / Jesse Jackson -- Defending our name, 1994 / Johnetta B. Cole -- Different voices, common talk : why we need a national conversation about race, 1994 / Lani Guinier -- Be not afraid, 2001 / Clarence Thomas -- The debt and the reckoning, 2002 / Randall Robinson -- The broken promise of Brown, 2004 / Julian Bond.edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252).n-us--- Geschichte 1895-2004. swd Speeches, addresses, etc., AmericanAfrican American authorsAfrican AmericansHistorySourcesAfrican American oratorsDiscours américainsAuteurs noirs américainsNoirs américainsHistoireSourcesOrateurs noirs américainsAfrican American oratorsNoirs américainsHistoirePolitische RedeSchwarzeUSAPS663.N4 S39 2005815/.508896073HU 198215658492489781565849242159558126X (pbk.)9781595581266 (pbk.)2004057646DLC04080620200124112358.05063604