TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Catherine AU - Smith,Stephen TI - Say it plain: a century of great African American speeches SN - 1565849248 AV - PS663.N4 S39 2005 U1 - 815/.508896073 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - New Press KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., American KW - African American authors KW - African Americans KW - History KW - Sources KW - African American orators KW - Discours américains KW - Auteurs noirs américains KW - Noirs américains KW - Histoire KW - Orateurs noirs américains KW - ram KW - Politische Rede KW - swd KW - Schwarze KW - USA KW - Anthologie N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252); 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 N2 - 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 ER -