Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches / edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Catherine, 1964- editor.

Smith, Stephen, 1960- editor.

New Press, publisher.

W.W. Norton & Company, distributor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

African Americans--History--Sources.

African Americans.

History.

African American orators.

African Americans--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxv, 254 pages ; 24 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in)

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 2005.

Summary:

Accompanying CDs have digitally remastered recordings of the original speeches.

Contents:

Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895 / Booker T. Washington

Explanation of the objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921 / Marcus Garvey

What does American democracy mean to me? 1939 / Mary McLeod Bethune

Speech at NAACP annual convention, 1947 / Walter White

Personal recording, 1949 / Charles Hamilton Houston

Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Cooper v. Aaron, 1958 / Thurgood Marshall

Community and the self, 1961 / Howard Thurman

Speech at St. John's Baptist church, 1963 / Dick Gregory

Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, 1964 / Fannie Lou Hamer

Speech at University of California, Berkeley, 1966 / Stokely Carmichael

I've been to the mountaintop, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, 1969 / John Hope Franklin

The Black woman in contemporary America, 1974 / Shirley Chisholm

Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, 1974 / Barbara Jordan

Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1978 / Benjamin L. Hooks

The Black presence in America, 1980 / Joseph Lowery

Address to the National Press Club, 1984 / Louis Farrakhan

Keep hope alive : Democratic National Convention, 1988 / Jesse Jackson

Defending our name, 1994 / Johnetta B. Cole

Different voices, common talk : why we need a national conversation about race, 1994 / Lani Guinier

Be not afraid, 2001 / Clarence Thomas

The debt and the reckoning, 2002 / Randall Robinson

The broken promise of Brown, 2004 / Julian Bond.

Notes:

Jacket photograph "© Flip Schulke/CORBIS. Jacket design by Christine Sullivan."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

1565849248

9781565849242

159558126X

9781595581266

OCLC:

56198609

Publisher Number:

99809397441