Historic speeches of African Americans
/ introduced and selected by Warren J. Halliburton
- 192 pages : illustrations
- African-American experience .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-188) and index.
Part 1. Home of the free, land of the slave Walkers appeal / David Walker We are natives of this country / Peter Williams, Jr. The tears of those who will be left behind / James Forten, Sr. I am a fugitive slave / Jerman Wesley Loguen A deep and cruel prejudice / John Sweat Rock Part 2. Emancipation and reconstruction I want women to have their rights ... I will sahle every palce I go to / Sojourner Truth Marked was their valor / Robert B. Elliot We are determined / Blanche Kelso Bruce Who would be free. themselves must strike the blow / Frederick Douglass The progress of colored women Part 3. Renewed racial strategies The friendship of the two races / Booker T. Washington This awful slaughter / Ida B. Wells-Barnet The principles of the universal Negro Improvement Association / Marcus Garvey In the people we have the real source of ... endless life and unbounded wisdom / W.E.B Du Bois Part 4. The civil rights revolution A talk to teachers / James Baldwin I have a dream / Martin Lurther King, Jr. Address to Mississippi youth / Malcolm X Stokely carmichael on black power / Stokely Carmichael The business of America is war, and it is time for a change / Shirley Chisholm Black manifesto / James Forman Part 4. A time for assessment Black people and the unions / Vernon F. Jordan, Jr. We can form a national community / Barbara Jordan Lifting as we climb / Angela Y. Davis We must dream new dreams / Jesse L. Jackson
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African Americans--History--Sources Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors