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James Daley
Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others
Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others
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Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics.
The collection begins with Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, followed by Jermain Wesley Loguen's I Am a Fugitive Slave, the famous Ain't I a Woman? speech by Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass's immortal What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? Subsequent orators include John Sweat Rock, John M. Langston, James T. Rapier, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Francis J. Grimk , Marcus Garvey, and Mary McLeod Bethune. Martin Luther King, Jr., 's I Have a Dream speech appears here, along with Malcolm X's The Ballot or The Bullet, Shirley Chisholm's The Black Woman in Contemporary America, The Constitution: A Living Document by Thurgood Marshall, and Barack Obama's Knox College Commencement Address.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Daley, James
Published: 04/28/2006
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486447612
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.30w x 0.41d
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The collection begins with Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, followed by Jermain Wesley Loguen's I Am a Fugitive Slave, the famous Ain't I a Woman? speech by Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass's immortal What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? Subsequent orators include John Sweat Rock, John M. Langston, James T. Rapier, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Francis J. Grimk , Marcus Garvey, and Mary McLeod Bethune. Martin Luther King, Jr., 's I Have a Dream speech appears here, along with Malcolm X's The Ballot or The Bullet, Shirley Chisholm's The Black Woman in Contemporary America, The Constitution: A Living Document by Thurgood Marshall, and Barack Obama's Knox College Commencement Address.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Daley, James
Published: 04/28/2006
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486447612
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.30w x 0.41d
