Charleston County Public Library

Historic speeches of African Americans, introduced and selected by Warren J. Halliburton

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Historic speeches of African Americans

bibliography

introduced and selected by Warren J. Halliburton

African-American experience

Presents speeches by various African American religious and political leaders from the days of slavery to the present, along with biographical information and historical background

I: Home of the free, land of the slave -- II: Emancipation and reconstruction -- III: Renewed racial strategies -- IV: The civil rights revolution -- V: A time for assessmentWalker's appeal / David Walker -- We are natives of this country / Peter Williams -- Tears of those who will be left behind / James Forten -- I am a fugitive slave / Jermain Wesley Loguen -- Deep and cruel prejudice / John Sweat Rock -- I want women to have their rights / Sojourner Truth -- Marked was their valor / Robert B. Elliott -- We are determined / Blanche Kelso Bruce -- Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow / Frederick Douglass -- Progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell -- Friendship of the two races / Booker T. Washington -- This awful slaughter / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- 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 -- A talk to teachers / James Baldwin - I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Address to Mississippi youth / Malcolm X - Stokely Carmichael on black power / Stokely CarmichaelThe business of America is war, and it is time for a change / Shirley Chisholm -- Black manifesto / James Forman -- 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