The will of a people : a critical anthology of great African American speeches / / edited with introductions by Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809475503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-69750-4; 9786613674463; 0-8093-9073-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (466 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DuffyBernard K; LeemanRichard W
• Disciplina: 815/.0080896073
• Soggetti: African American orators; African Americans - History; Speeches, addresses, etc., American - African American authors
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Maria W. Miller Stewart -- Lecture, Delivered at the Franklin Hall (Why Sit Ye Here and Die?) -- Henry Highland Garnet -- An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Speech to the National Convention of Colored Citizens) -- Sojourner Truth -- A'n't I a Woman? (Speech at the Women's Rights Convention) -- Frederick Douglass -- What to the American Slave Is the Fourth of July? -- Henry McNeal Turner -- I Claim the Rights of a Man (Speech to the Georgia State Legislature) -- Frederick Douglass -- Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Lincoln Monument -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Duty to Dependent Races (Speech to the National Council of Women of the United States) -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Lynch Law in All Its Phases -- Booker T. Washington -- Atlanta Exposition Address (Cotton States Exposition Address) -- Mary Church Terrell -- What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States -- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois -- Disfranchisement -- Marcus Mosiah Garvey -- The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement ; Association -- Vernon Johns -- Rock Foundations -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- I Have a Dream -- Malcolm X -- The Ballot or the Bullet -- Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) -- Black Power -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- A Time to Break Silence -- Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm -- It Is Time to Reassess Our National Priorities -- Barbara Charline Jordan -- Speech on Watergate to the House Judiciary Committee -- Jesse Louis Jackson -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention (The Rainbow Coalition) -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Children's Legislative Issues (Speech to the National Education Association) -- Barack Hussein Obama -- Inaugural Address -- Notes -- Sources -- Index -- Authors Bios -- Back Cover.