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xli, 514 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
The only single source for civil rights speeches, spanning all of American history and representing the African-American, Asian- American, gay, Hispanic-American, and women's movements. Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The curse of slavery / Gouverneur Morris -- Blood and slavery / A free Negro -- This is our country / Peter Williams, Jr. -- An address at the African Masonic Hall / Maria W. Stewart -- Address to the Massachusetts Legislature / Angelina Grimké -- Loosening the bonds of prejudice / Sara T. Smith -- Defending the Amistad slaves / John Quincy Adams -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Address at Seneca Falls / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Ar'n't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- No compromise with the evil of slavery / William Lloyd Garrison -- Leave women, then, to find their sphere / Lucy Stone -- On seizing land from native Californians / Pablo De La Guerra -- A house divided / Abraham Lincoln -- No consciousness of guilt / John Brown -- A day to celebrate emancipation / Jonathan Gibbs -- Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- In praise of labor / Booker T. Washington.
We are all bound up together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The myth of "yellow peril" / Frederick Douglass -- Suffrage and the working woman / Susan B. Anthony -- Half free, half slave / James T. Rapier -- Unsung heroes / Rev. L.T. Chamberlain -- The first African-American governor / P.B.S. Pinchback -- The queens of womanhood / Alexander Crummell -- Man cannot speak for her / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- A call for black women / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin -- The Atlanta compromise / Booker T. Washington -- Training Negroes for social power / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell -- The last, hard fight / Carrie Chapman Catt -- A moral partnership legitimized / Woodrow Wilson -- A defense of Japanese Americans / John P. Irish -- Crusade for women's birth control / Margaret Sanger -- Defending Mexican Americans / Alonso S. Perales -- A separate nation / Marcus Garvey.
A last word before incarceration / Marcus Garvey -- A Negro nation within a nation / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Fighting words / James Omura -- Desegregating the military / A. Philip Randolph -- A cloud of suspicion / Carey McWilliams -- Guarding our heritage / Harry S. Truman -- Jim Crow army / Bayard Rustin -- No compromises / Hubert Humphrey -- The universal declaration of human rights / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Dismantling segregation : Brown volume Board of Education / Thurgood Marshall -- Montgomery Bus Boycott / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The homosexual faces a challenge / Ken Burns -- Federal court orders must be upheld / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Civil rights message / John F. Kennedy -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- We must free ourselves / John Lewis -- Sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act / Howard "Judge" Smith -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X.
A long, long way to go / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Brotherhood among ourselves / Malcolm X -- We shall overcome / Lyndon B. Johnson -- To fulfill these rights / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Day of affirmation address / Robert F. Kennedy -- Furthering the homophile movement / Franklin Kameny -- Black power / Stokely Carmichael -- The silent people no longer / Joseph M. Montoya -- The land grant question / Reies López Tijerina -- Breaking bread for progress / César Chávez -- I've been to the mountaintop / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- On Martin Luther King's death / Robert F. Kennedy -- From expatriation for emancipation / Daniel Inouye -- The real sexual revolution / Betty Friedan -- This is no land of cynics / Henry B. Gonzalez -- Chicano nationalism : fighting for la raza / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales -- For the Equal Rights Amendment / Shirly Chisolm -- Who then will speak for the common good? / Barbara Jordan.
Take destiny into your own hands / Karla Jay -- A Chicano defined / José Angel Gutiérrez -- Roe volume Wade : legalizing abortion / Sara Weddington -- You can do it / Patricia Schroeder -- Recognition NOW / Phyllis Lyon -- America should admit its guilt / Robert "Spark" Matsunaga -- Tired of the silence / Harvey Milk -- That a past wrong be admitted / Clifford Uyeda -- Our time has come : 1984 Democratic Convention speech / Jesse Jackson, Sr. -- We organized / César Chávez -- Acting up / Larry Kramer -- Creating change / Virginia Apuzzo -- What gay consciousness brings / Harry Hay -- Anita Hill volume Clarence Thomas / Anita Hill -- The story of self-hatred / David Mixner -- Seeking a conversation on race / Lani Guinier -- The freedom to die / William J. Clinton -- We are at war / Sister Souljah -- Rejecting racial hatred / Colin Powell -- The two faces of American immigration / Raul Yzaguirre -- A million men marching on / Louis Farrakhan -- Consciousness is power / Yuri Kochiyama -- Protecting same-sex marriage / Barney Frank -- A shining and powerful dream / Kweisi Mfume -- Seneca Falls : 150 years later / Hillary Rodham Clinton.
edited by Josh Gottheimer ; foreword by Bill Clinton ; afterword by Mary Frances Berry.
Civil rights - United States - History - Sources
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