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The will of a people : a critical anthology of great African American speeches /

"Drawing upon nearly two hundred years of recorded African American oratory, The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches, edited by Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy, brings together in one unique volume some of this tradition's most noteworthy speech...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leeman, Richard W., Duffy, Bernard K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Lecture, delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832) / Maria W. Miller Stewart
  • An address to the slaves of the United States of America (1843) / Henry Highland Garnet
  • A'n't I a woman? (1851) / Sojourner Truth
  • What to the American slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) / Frederick Douglass
  • I claim the rights of a man (1868) / Henry McNeal Turner
  • Oration on the occasion of the dedication of the Lincoln Monument (1876) / Frederick Douglass
  • Duty to dependent races (1891) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Lynch law in all its phases (1893) / Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • Atlanta exposition address (1895) / Booker T. Washington
  • What it means to be colored in the capital of the United States (1906) / Mary Church Terrell
  • Disfranchisement (1912) / William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
  • The principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1922) / Marcus Mosiah Garvey
  • Rock foundations (1926) / Vernon Johns
  • I have a dream (1963) / Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The ballot or the bullet (1964) / Malcolm X
  • Black power (1966) / Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
  • A time to break silence (1967) / Martin Luther King Jr.
  • It is time to reassess our national priorities (1969) / Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
  • Speech on Watergate to the House Judiciary Committee (1974) / Barbara Charline Jordan
  • Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1984) / Jesse Louis Jackson
  • Children's legislative issues (1985) / Marian Wright Edelman
  • Inaugural address (2009) / Barack Hussein Obama.