Powerful words : more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans / Wade Hudson ; illustrated by Sean Qualls ; foreword by Marian Wright Edelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Wade.

Contributor:

Qualls, Sean, illustrator.

Edelman, Marian Wright, writer of introduction.

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

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Sources--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

African Americans--Quotations--Juvenile literature.

African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American--Juvenile literature.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

African Americans--History--Sources.

African Americans--Quotations.

Quotations.

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Juvenile works.

Quotations.

Sources.

Biography.

Quotations -- Juvenile literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 178 pages : portraits ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Scholastic Nonfiction [an imprint of Scholastic, ©2004].

Summary:

A collection of speeches and writings by African Americans, with commentary about the time period in which each person lived, information about the speaker/writer, and public response to the words.

Contents:

The Beginning. Benjamin Banneker: from a letter to Thomas Jefferson 1781; Richard Allen: from The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Right, 1786; Samuel B. Cornish & John Russwurm: from the editorial in the first edition of Freedom's Journal, 1827

Antislavery Crusaders. David Walker: from Walker's appeal in four articles, 1829; Dred Scott: Dred Scott's petition to sue for his freedom, 1847; Sojourner Truth: an address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, 1851; Frederick Douglass: from a speech to the Rochester Antislavery Sewing Society, 1852; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Bury me in a free land" from the book Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, 1854

Great Expectations. Henry Highland Garnet: from a speech delivered in the hall of the United States House of Representatives, 1865; Blanche K. Bruce: from a speech to the United States Senate on the Mississippi election, 1876; Ida B. Wells Barnett: from A red record, 1895; Mary Church Terrell: from an address delivered to the National American Women's Suffrage Association, 1898

The Great Debate. Booker T. Washington: from a speech delivered at the Cotton State and International Exposition, 1895; W.E.B. DuBois: from the Souls of Black Folks, 1903

A New Century. James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson: "Lift ev'ry voice and Sing", 1900; Marcus Garvey: from a speech delivered at Liberty Hall, 1922

Educating the People. Mary McLeod Bethune: from "Faith that moved a dump heap", 1941

A Cultural Renaissance. Langston Hughes: "The negro speaks of rivers", 1921; Zora Neale Hurston: from Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Thomas A. Dorsey: "Take my hand, Precious Lord", 1938; Richard Wright: from Native Son, 1940; Paul Robeson: from an Address at a public meeting sponsored by the Council of African Affairs, 1946

Breaking New Ground. George Washington Carver: from The Man Who Talked with Flowers, 1939

The Struggle for Civil Rights. Thurgood Marshall: from the Summary of Argument, Brown v. Board of Education, 1953; Rosa Parks: from Rosa Parks, My Story, 1992; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: from a Speech delivered at Lincoln University, 1961; Malcolm X: from an Address delivered at the Hotel Theresa, 1964

A New Direction. Stokeley Carmichael: from a Speech delivered at the University of California at Berkeley, 1966

Family Heritage. Alex Haley: from Roots: The Saga of an American Family, 1976

The Political Arena. Barbara Jordan: from the Keynote Address, National Democratic Convention, 1976; Reverend Jesse Jackson: from an Address to the National Democratic Convention, 1988

Mighty Voices. Marian Wright Edelman: from a Speech delivered at the Congressional Black Caucus Conference, 1987

Sharing the Stories. Toni Morrison: from the Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993

A New Generation. Lauryn Hill: "The Miseducation of Lauren Hill", 1998.

Notes:

"First printing, February 2004."

"The text type was set in Mrs. Eaves and Rockwell."

"Art direction by Nancy Sabato. Book design by Matt Bouloutian."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-173) and index.

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2005.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0439409691 :

9780439409698

OCLC:

51942371

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