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Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches
- Title
- Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches / edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 05-366 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc CD-1246 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 05-7667 [Text] | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 | |
| disc 1 | Text | Request in advance | *BGF-1028 [Sound discs] disc 1 | Offsite | |
| disc 2 | Text | Request in advance | *BGF-1028 [Sound disc] disc 2 | Offsite | |
| Track list | Text | Request in advance | *BGF-1028 [Sound disc] Track list | Offsite |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxv, 254 p.; 24 cm. +
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252).
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 05-366
- ISBN
- 1565849248
- LCCN
- 2004057646
- OCLC
- 56198609
- Title
- Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches / edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.
- Imprint
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252).
- Added Author
- Ellis, Catherine, 1964-Smith, Stephen, 1960-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 05-366Sc CD-1246 [audio discs]JFE 05-7667 [Text]*BGF-1028 [Sound discs]