Say it plain :  a century of great African American speeches / 
edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith. 
 - New York :  New Press :  Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.,  c2005. 
 - xxv, 254 p. ;  24 cm. +  2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252). 
<br/><br/> 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 / 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1565849248 9781565849242 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004057646 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.<br/>African Americans--History--Sources.<br/>African American orators.<br/>Discours américains--Auteurs noirs américains.<br/>Noirs américains--Histoire--Sources.<br/>Orateurs noirs américains.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 663  / S274 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>815/.508896073