Say it plain :
Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches /
edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.
- New York : New Press : c2005.
- xxv, 254 p. ; 24 cm. + 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252).
Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, Explanation of the objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, What does American democracy mean to me? Speech at NAACP annual convention, Personal recording, Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Cooper v. Aaron, Community and the self, Speech at St. John's Baptist church, Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, Speech at University of California, Berkeley, I've been to the mountaintop, Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, The Black woman in contemporary America, Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, The Black presence in America, Address to the National Press Club, Keep hope alive : Democratic National Convention, Defending our name, Different voices, common talk : why we need a national conversation about race, Be not afraid, The debt and the reckoning, Booker T. Washington -- Marcus Garvey -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Walter White -- Charles Hamilton Houston -- Thurgood Marshall -- Howard Thurman -- Dick Gregory -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Stokely Carmichael -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- John Hope Franklin -- Shirley Chisholm -- Barbara Jordan -- Benjamin L. Hooks -- Joseph Lowery -- Louis Farrakhan -- Jesse Jackson -- Johnetta B. Cole -- Lani Guinier -- Clarence Thomas -- Randall Robinson -- The broken promise of Brown, Julian Bond. 1895 / 1921 / 1939 / 1947 / 1949 / 1958 / 1961 / 1963 / 1964 / 1966 / 1968 / 1969 / 1974 / 1974 / 1978 / 1980 / 1984 / 1988 / 1994 / 1994 / 2001 / 2002 / 2004 /
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.
1565849248 9781565849242 159558126X (pbk.) 9781595581266 (pbk.)
2004057646
Geschichte 1895-2004.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.
African Americans--History--Sources.
African American orators.
Discours américains--Auteurs noirs américains.
Noirs américains--Histoire--Sources.
Orateurs noirs américains.
African American orators.
Noirs américains--Histoire.
Politische Rede.
Schwarze.
USA.
Anthologie.
PS663.N4 / S39 2005
815/.508896073
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252).
Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, Explanation of the objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, What does American democracy mean to me? Speech at NAACP annual convention, Personal recording, Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Cooper v. Aaron, Community and the self, Speech at St. John's Baptist church, Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, Speech at University of California, Berkeley, I've been to the mountaintop, Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, The Black woman in contemporary America, Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, The Black presence in America, Address to the National Press Club, Keep hope alive : Democratic National Convention, Defending our name, Different voices, common talk : why we need a national conversation about race, Be not afraid, The debt and the reckoning, Booker T. Washington -- Marcus Garvey -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Walter White -- Charles Hamilton Houston -- Thurgood Marshall -- Howard Thurman -- Dick Gregory -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Stokely Carmichael -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- John Hope Franklin -- Shirley Chisholm -- Barbara Jordan -- Benjamin L. Hooks -- Joseph Lowery -- Louis Farrakhan -- Jesse Jackson -- Johnetta B. Cole -- Lani Guinier -- Clarence Thomas -- Randall Robinson -- The broken promise of Brown, Julian Bond. 1895 / 1921 / 1939 / 1947 / 1949 / 1958 / 1961 / 1963 / 1964 / 1966 / 1968 / 1969 / 1974 / 1974 / 1978 / 1980 / 1984 / 1988 / 1994 / 1994 / 2001 / 2002 / 2004 /
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.
1565849248 9781565849242 159558126X (pbk.) 9781595581266 (pbk.)
2004057646
Geschichte 1895-2004.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.
African Americans--History--Sources.
African American orators.
Discours américains--Auteurs noirs américains.
Noirs américains--Histoire--Sources.
Orateurs noirs américains.
African American orators.
Noirs américains--Histoire.
Politische Rede.
Schwarze.
USA.
Anthologie.
PS663.N4 / S39 2005
815/.508896073