Powerful words : more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans / Wade Hudson ; illustrated by Sean Qualls ; foreword by Marian Wright Edelman.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-173) and index.
Contents:
Richard Allen, 1786 -- Samuel B. Cornish & John Russwurm: from the editorial in the first edition of Freedom's Journal, 1827 -- David Walker: from Walker's appeal in four articles, 1829 -- Dred Scott: Dred Scott's petition to sue for his freedom, 1847 -- Sojourner Truth: an address to the Ohio women's rights convention, 1851 -- Frederick Douglass: from a speech to the Rochester antislavery sewing society, 1852 -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Bury me in a free land" from the book Poems on miscellaneous subjects, 1854 -- Henry Highland Garnet: from a speech delivered in the hall of the United States House of Representatives, 1865 -- Blanche K. Bruce: from a speech to the United States Senate on the Mississippi election, 1876 -- Ida B. Wells Barnett: from A red record, 1895 -- Mary Church Terrell: from an address delivered to the National American women's suffrage association, 1898 -- Booker T. Washington: from a speech delivered at the Cotton state and International exposition, 1895 -- W.E.B. DuBois: from the souls of black folks, 1903 -- James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson: "Lift ev'ry voice and sing", 1900 -- Marcus Garvey: from a speech delivered at Liberty hall, 1922 -- Mary McLeod Bethune: from "Faith that moved a dump heap", 1941 -- Langston Hughes: "The negro speaks of rivers", 1921 -- Zora Neale Hurston: From their eyes were watching God, 1937 -- Thomas A. Dorsey: "Take my hand, Precious Lord", 1938 -- Richard Wright: From Native son, 1940 -- Paul Robeson: from and address at a public meeting sponsored by the Council of African Affairs, 1946 -- George Washington Carver: From The man who talked with flowers, 1939 -- Thurgood Marshall: From the summary of argument, Brown v. Board of Education, 1953 -- Rosa Parks: From Rosa Parks, my story, 1992 -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: from a speech delivered at Lincoln University, 1961 -- Malcolm X: from an address delivered at the Hotel Theresa, 1964 -- Stokeley Carmichael: from a speech delivered at the University of California at Berkley, 1966 -- Alex Haley: from Roots: the saga of an American family, 1976 -- Barbara Jordan: From the keynote address, National Democratic convention, 1976 -- Reverend Jesse Jackson: from an address to the National Democratic convention, 1988 -- Marian Wright Edelman: From a speech delivered at the Congressional black caucus conference, 1987 -- Toni Morrison: from the Nobel lecture in literature, 1993 -- Lauryn Hill: "The miseducation of Lauren Hill", 1998.
Summary:
A collection of speeches and writings by African Americans, with commentary about the time period in which each person lived, information about the speaker/writer, and public response to the words.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.