TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Kate AU - Smith,Stephen TI - Say it plain: a century of great African American speeches SN - 1565849248 AV - PS 663 S274 2005 U1 - 815/.508896073 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - New Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. 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 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 ER -