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Speeches Given by African-Americans
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This speech collection is organized in
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Carmichael,
Stokely
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Black Power
October 29, 1966, delivered at Berkeley,
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Chisholm,
Shirley
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Equal Rights for Women
May 21, 1969, delivered at Washington D.C. |
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Douglass,
Frederick
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The Hypocrisy of
American Slavery
(What to the Slave
is the Fourth of July?)
July 5, 1852, delivered at Rochester, New
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An Appeal to Congress
for Impartial Suffrage
January 1867, as published in the
Atlantic Monthly |
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Hill, Anita
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I Could Not Keep
Silent
October 11, 1991, delivered at Washington
D.C. |
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Jackson, Jesse
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Address to the
Democratic National Convention
July 18, 1984, delivered at San Francisco,
California
Address to the
Democratic National Convention
July 19, 1988, delivered at Atlanta, Georgia |
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Jordan,
Barbara C.
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The Constitutional
Basis for Impeachment
July 25, 1974, delivered at Washington D.C.
Who Then Will Speak
for the Common Good?
July 12, 1976, delivered at New York, N.Y. |
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King, Martin
Luther, Jr.
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The Birth of a New
Nation
April 7, 1957, delivered at Montgomery,
Alabama
I Have a Dream
August 28, 1963, delivered at Washington D.C.
Nobel Prize Acceptance
Speech
December 10, 1964, delivered at Oslo, Norway
A Time to Break
Silence
April 4, 1967, delivered at New York City,
NY
I've Seen the Promised
Land
April 3, 1968, delivered at Memphis,
Tennessee |
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Malcolm X
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Black Man's History
December 1962, delivered at New York, NY
Message to the Grass
Roots
November 10, 1963, delivered at Detroit,
Michigan
The Ballot or the
Bullet
April 3, 1964, delivered at Cleveland, Ohio |
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Obama, Barack
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DNC Keynote Address
July 27, 2004, delivered at Boston,
Massachusetts
Yes, We Can
January 8, 2008, delivered at Nashua, New
Hampshire
Inaugural Address
January 20, 2009, delivered at Washington,
D.C.
On the Death of Osama
Bin Laden
May 1, 2011, delivered at Washington,
D.C.
Second Inaugural
Address
January 21, 2013, delivered at Washington,
D.C. |
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Terrell, Mary
E. Church
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What It Means to be
Colored in the Capital of the United States
October 10, 1906, delivered at Washington,
D.C. |
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Truth,
Sojourner
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Ain't I a Woman?
May 28,
1851, delivered in Akron, Ohio |
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Washington,
Booker T.
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Atlanta Compromise
September 18, 1895, delivered at Atlanta,
Georgia
Harvard University
Address
June 24, 1896, delivered at Boston,
Massachusetts
Democracy and
Education
September 30, 1896, delivered at Brooklyn,
New York |
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Weaver, Robert
C.
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The Negro as an
American
June 13, 1963, delivered at Chicago,
Illinois |
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