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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2012]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.