Research Catalog

Title

Say it loud : great speeches on civil rights and African American identity / edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.

Publication

New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ellis, Catherine, 1964-
• Smith, Stephen, 1960-

Description

xii, 287 p.; 25 cm. +

Subject

• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Sources
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 21st century > Sources
• Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Sources
• Civil rights movements > United States > History > 21st century > Sources
• African Americans > Race identity > History > Sources
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American > African American authors
• African American orators > Biography
• United States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Sources
• United States > Race relations > History > 21st century > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

"The ballot or the bullet," 1964 / Malcolm X -- "The Black revolution and the White backlash," 1964 / Lorraine Hansberry -- Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 / Ossie Davis -- "Where do we go from here?" 1967 / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968 / Roy Wilkins -- Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 / Benjamin E. Mays -- Speech delivered at memorial service for Bobby Hutton, 1968 / Kathleen Cleaver -- Speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968 / Bobby Seale -- Speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968 / Ella Baker -- Speech at Howard University, 1969 / Shirley Chisholm -- Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972 / Angela Y. Davis -- Speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978 / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. -- Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979 / Dorothy I. Height -- "The relationship of the Christian faith to political praxis," 1980 / James H. Cone -- Nobel Prize lecture, 1993 / Toni Morrison -- Commencement address at Howard University, 1994 / Colin Powell -- "One hundredth anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson," 1996 / Mary Frances Berry -- "America : a nation of equals," 1998 / Ward Connerly -- Speech to National Council of Negro Women, 2001 / Condoleezza Rice -- "Youth and the political process," 2003 / Maxine Waters -- "America beyond the color line," 2004 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- "Has the Black middle class lost its mind?" 2005 / Michael Eric Dyson -- "A more perfect union," 2008 / Barack Obama.

Call Number

Sc E 10-1488

ISBN

• 9781595581136
• 1595581138

LCCN

2010010895

OCLC

435419371

Title

Say it loud : great speeches on civil rights and African American identity / edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.

Imprint

New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Ellis, Catherine, 1964-

Smith, Stephen, 1960-

Research Call Number

Sc E 10-1488