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Tables of Contents for Historic Speeches of African Americans
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Declarations for Independence
11
12
I HOME OF THE FREE, LAND OF THE SLAVE
23
30
Walker's Appeal
25
7
David Walker
``We are Natives of this Country''
32
6
Peter Williams, Jr.
``The Tears of those Who will be Left Behind''
38
4
James Forten
``I am a Fugitive Slave''
42
5
Jermain Wesley Loguen
``A Deep and Cruel Prejudice''
47
6
John Sweat Rock
II EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUCTION
53
26
``I Want Women to Have their Rights.... I will Shake Every Place I Go to''
55
4
Sojourner Truth
``Marked was their Valor''
59
3
Robert B. Elliott
``We are Determined''
62
6
Blanche Kelso Bruce
``Who would be Free, Themselves must Strike the Blow''
68
5
Frederick Douglass
``The Progress of Colored Women''
73
6
Mary Church Terrell
III RENEWED RACIAL STRATEGIES
79
30
``The Friendship of the two Races''
81
6
Booker T. Washington
``This Awful Slaughter''
87
7
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
``The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association''
94
4
Marcus Garvey
``In the People We have the Real Source of... Endless Life and Unbounded Wisdom''
98
11
W. E. B. Du Bois
IV THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION
109
42
``A Talk to Teachers''
111
11
James Baldwin
``I Have a Dream''
122
7
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Address to Mississippi Youth''
129
5
Malcolm X
``Stokely Carmichael on Black Power''
134
5
Stokely Carmichael
``The Business of America is War, and It is Time for a Change''
139
5
Shirley Chisholm
``Black Manifesto''
144
7
James Forman
V A TIME FOR ASSESSMENT
151
27
``Black People and the Unions''
153
7
Vernon F. Jordan, Jr.
``We Can Form a National Community''
160
7
Barbara Jordan
``Lifting as We Climb''
167
5
Angela Y. Davis
``We Must Dream New Dreams''
172
6
Jesse L. Jackson
End Notes
178
2
The Sources of the Speeches
180
4
For Further Reading
184
5
Index
189