Powerful words : more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans /
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.
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New York :
Scholastic Nonfiction,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Richard Allen, 1786
- Samuel B. Cornish & John Russwurm: from the editorial in the first edition of Freedom's Journal, 1827
- 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
- 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
- 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
- James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson: "Lift ev'ry voice and sing", 1900
- Marcus Garvey: from a speech delivered at Liberty hall, 1922
- Mary McLeod Bethune: from "Faith that moved a dump heap", 1941
- 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 and address at a public meeting sponsored by the Council of African Affairs, 1946
- George Washington Carver: From The man who talked with flowers, 1939
- 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
- Stokeley Carmichael: from a speech delivered at the University of California at Berkley, 1966
- Alex Haley: from Roots: the saga of an American family, 1976
- Barbara Jordan: From the keynote address, National Democratic convention, 1976
- Reverend Jesse Jackson: from an address to the National Democratic convention, 1988
- Marian Wright Edelman: From a speech delivered at the Congressional black caucus conference, 1987
- Toni Morrison: from the Nobel lecture in literature, 1993
- Lauryn Hill: "The miseducation of Lauren Hill", 1998.