Say it loud: great speeches on civil rights and African American identity

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Malcolm X: "the ballot or the bullet," 1964 -- Lorraine Hansberry: "the black revolution and the white backlash," 1964 -- Ossie Davis: eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 -- Martin Luther King Jr.: "where do we go from here?" 1967 -- Roy Wilkins: speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968 -- Benjamin E. Mays: eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr., 1968 -- Kathleen Cleaver: speech delivered at memorial service for Bobby Hutton, 1968 -- Bobby Seale: speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968 -- Ella Baker: speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968 -- Shirley Chisholm: speech at Howard University, 1969 -- Angela Y. Davis: speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972 -- Vernon E. Jordan Jr.: speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978 -- Dorothy I. Height: speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979 -- James H. Cone: "the relationship of the Christian faith to political praxis", 1980 -- Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize lecture, 1993 -- Colin Powell: commencement address at Howard University, 1994 -- Mary Frances Berry: "one hundredth anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson," 1996 -- Ward Connerly: "America: a nation of equals," 1998 -- Condoleezza Rice: "speech to National Council of Negro Women," 2001 -- Maxine Waters: "youth and the political process," 2003 -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: "America beyond the color line," 2004 -- Michael Eric Dyson: "has the black middle class lost its mind?" 2005 -- Barack Obama: "a more perfect union," 2008.;Following the path-breaking Say It Plain, here is an even more commercial companion volume that covers the fight for civil rights in the words of some of the our country's most important voices.;Includes powerful speeches by Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Angela Davis, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr., James Cone, Toni Morrison, Cornel West, and many others.