Say it loud : great speeches on civil rights and African American identity / edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ellis, Catherine, 1964-
• Smith, Stephen, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• History.
• African American orators.
• Race relations.
• African Americans--Race identity.
• Civil rights movements.
• United States.
• African Americans--Civil rights--History--21st century--Sources.
• Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Sources.
• Civil rights movements--United States--History--21st century--Sources.
• African Americans--Race identity--History--Sources.
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.
• United States--Race relations--History--20th century--Sources.
• United States--Race relations--History--21st century--Sources.
• African American orators--Biography.

Genre:

• Sources.
• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 287 pages ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital : 113 min. ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.

Summary:

Accompanying CD contains ... "audio excerpts of powerful speeches by Malcolm X, Lorraine Hansberry, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Y. Davis, James H. Cone, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, and many others."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

• "The ballot or the bullet," 1964 / Malcolm X
• "The Black revolution and the White backlash," 1964 / Lorraine Hansberry
• Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 / Ossie Davis
• "Where do we go from here?" 1967 / Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968 / Roy Wilkins
• Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 / Benjamin E. Mays
• Speech delivered at memorial service for Bobby Hutton, 1968 / Kathleen Cleaver
• Speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968 / Bobby Seale
• Speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968 / Ella Baker
• Speech at Howard University, 1969 / Shirley Chisholm
• Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972 / Angela Y. Davis
• Speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978 / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
• Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979 / Dorothy I. Height
• "The relationship of the Christian faith to political praxis," 1980 / James H. Cone
• Nobel Prize lecture, 1993 / Toni Morrison
• Commencement address at Howard University, 1994 / Colin Powell
• "One hundredth anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson," 1996 / Mary Frances Berry
• "America : a nation of equals," 1998 / Ward Connerly
• Speech to National Council of Negro Women, 2001 / Condoleezza Rice
• "Youth and the political process," 2003 / Maxine Waters
• "America beyond the color line," 2004 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• "Has the Black middle class lost its mind?" 2005 / Michael Eric Dyson
• "A more perfect union," 2008 / Barack Obama.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9781595581136
• 1595581138

OCLC:

435419371