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Powerful words : more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans
Title:
Powerful words : more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans
Author:
Hudson, Wade.
ISBN:
9780439409698
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic, c2004.
Physical Description:
xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents:
Speeches by various African American writers: Benjamin Banneker -- Richard Allen -- Samuel B Cornish & John Russwurm -- David Walker -- Dred Scott -- Sojourner Truth -- Frederick Douglass -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Blanche K. Bruce -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Mary Church Terrell -- Booker T. Washington -- W.E.B. DuBois -- James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson -- Marcus Garvey -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Thomas A. Dorsey -- Richrad Wright -- Paul Robeson -- George Washington Carver -- Thurgood Marshall -- Rosa Parks -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Malcolm X -- Stokeley Carmichael -- Alex Haley -- Barbara Jordan -- Reverend Jesse Jackson -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Toni Morrison -- Lauryn Hill.
Abstract:
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.