A Century Of Great African American Speeches

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  • Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass

    • UPC: 800759447619
    • ASIN: 0486447618
    • ISBN: 0486447618
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    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 ... [Read More]

  • From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore (An Anthology)

    • ASIN: 0393047989
    • ISBN: 0393047989
    • Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc

    An extraordinary celebration of African-American life and culture brings together four hundred years of African-American folklore, traditional tales, recipes, proverbs, legends, folk songs, and folk art by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neal Hurston, Jelly Roll Morton, and others.

  • Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches

    • ASIN: 159558126X
    • ISBN: 159558126X
    • Brand: Brand: New Press, The
    • Manufacturer: The New Press

    Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth centur... [Read More]

  • Ripples Of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

    • ASIN: 0465027539
    • ISBN: 0465027539
    • Brand: Basic Civitas Books
    • Manufacturer: Civitas Books

    Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure. With voices as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Harvey... [Read More]

  • Malcolm X on Afro-American History (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings)

    • ASIN: 0873485920
    • ISBN: 0873485920
    • Brand: Brand: Pathfinder Press (NY)
    • Manufacturer: Pathfinder Pr

    A Pathfinder upgraded edition.Recounts the hidden history of the labor of people of African origin and their achievements.Preface by Steve Clark, maps, photos, drawings, notes, index. Now with enlarged type.

  • African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories

    • UPC: 768821127732
    • ASIN: 1579127738
    • ISBN: 9781579127732
    • Brand: Wright, Kai (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring.The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely riveting collection of more than 300 letters, speeches, articles, petitions, poems, songs, and work... [Read More]

  • The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 (Circles of the Twentieth Century Series)

    • ASIN: 0679758895
    • ISBN: 9780679758891
    • Brand: Pantheon
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

    It was W.E.B. DuBois who paved the way with his essays and his magazine The Crisis, but the Harlem Renaissance was mostly a literary and intellectual movement whose best known figures include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer.  Their work ranged from sonnets to modernist verse to jazz aesthetics an... [Read More]

  • Empowerment Ethics For a Liberated People: A Path to Afican American Social Transformation

    • ASIN: 0800629175
    • ISBN: 0800629175
    • Manufacturer: Fortress Press

    Empowerment Ethics For a Liberated People: A Path to Afican American Social T...

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel

    • ASIN: B000UMN7C6
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • Gabriela 3-Book Box Set (American Girl: Girl of the Year 2017)

    • ASIN: 1338139363
    • ISBN: 1338139363
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.

    Meet the 2017 Girl of the Year, Gabriela McBride! She's a true talent who gets creative for a cause. This box set contains paperbacks of the three novels in her series.Gabriela: Gabby loves expressing herself -- especially in the dance studio -- but lately, poetry is becoming her art form of choice. Can Gabby use the power of her words to save her ... [Read More]

  • Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches

    • ASIN: 1565849248
    • ISBN: 1565849248
    • Brand: Brand: New Press, The
    • Manufacturer: The New Press

    A boxed edition of famous African-American speeches that were made throughout the twentieth century features actual live recordings on the accompanying CDs and offers insight into how key cultural, literary, and political figures worked to promote civil equality. 30,000 first printing.

  • Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1901 (Studies Rhetoric & Communicati)

    • ASIN: 0817309063
    • ISBN: 0817309063
    • Brand: Brand: University Alabama Press
    • Manufacturer: University Alabama Press

    This comprehensive anthology will be the standard source for the study of African American public address for years to come. For Americans of the 19th century, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, eloquent speeches were 'the shining lights of civilization' that both expressed and sought to improve the lives and communities from which they sprang. Through ... [Read More]

  • Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

    • ASIN: 1595581138
    • ISBN: 1595581138
    • Manufacturer: The New Press

    Say It Loud adds new depth to the oral and audio history of the modern struggle for racial equality and civil rights—focusing directly on the pivotal questions black America grappled with during the past four decades of resistance. With recordings unearthed from libraries and sound archives, and made widely available here for the first time, Say ... [Read More]

  • Gabriela (American Girl: Girl of the Year 2017, Book 1)

    • ASIN: 1338136984
    • ISBN: 1338136984
    • Brand: Scholastic Inc
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.

    Get to know American Girl's 2017 Girl of the Year, Gabriela, in this first book in her series! Gabby loves expressing herself--especially in the dance studio--but lately, poetry is becoming her art form of choice, and for good reason: Gabby struggles with stuttering, and spoken word poetry helps her speech flow more freely. Still, compared to how c... [Read More]

  • The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    • ASIN: 0525521038
    • ISBN: 0525521038
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morris... [Read More]

  • Historic Speeches of African Americans

    • ASIN: 0531110346
    • ISBN: 0531110346
    • Manufacturer: Franklin Watts

    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

  • Malcolm X: The Last Speeches (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings)

    • ASIN: 0873485432
    • ISBN: 0873485432
    • Brand: X, Malcolm
    • Manufacturer: Pathfinder Pr

    Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail. Speeches and interviews from the last two years of his life. Includes: Index, Chronology, Annotation

  • A Private Woman in Public Spaces: Barbara Jordan's Speeches on Ethics, Public Religion, and Law (African American Religious Thought and Life)

    • ASIN: 1563383020
    • ISBN: 1563383020
    • Manufacturer: Trinity Press International

    Barbara Jordan was a private woman in public spaces. She emerged from the obscurity of Houston’s segregated Fifth Ward to become the first African American Congresswoman elected from Texas since Reconstruction and a keynote speaker at two national Democratic conventions. Although her public career began in politics, she soon became known for her ... [Read More]

  • The Underground Railroad: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0345804325
    • ISBN: 0345804325
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    #1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Min... [Read More]

  • Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings

    • ASIN: 0812236904
    • ISBN: 0812236904
    • Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

    To understand fully the complexities of Thurgood Marshall's work as a practicing lawyer, civil rights advocate for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, federal judge, and the first African American appointed Solicitor General of the United States and Justice of the United States Supreme Court, these texts are indispensable.The early speeches assembled by ... [Read More]

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