Great Speeches by African Americans by James Daley

Great Speeches by African Americans by James Daley

Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics.
The collection begins with Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, followed by Jermain Wesley Loguen's I Am a Fugitive Slave, the famous Ain't I a Woman? speech by Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass's immortal What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? Subsequent orators include John Sweat Rock, John M. Langston, James T. Rapier, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Francis J. Grimke, Marcus Garvey, and Mary McLeod Bethune. Martin Luther King, Jr., 's I Have a Dream speech appears here, along with Malcolm X's The Ballot or The Bullet, Shirley Chisholm's The Black Woman in Contemporary America, The Constitution: A Living Document by Thurgood Marshall, and Barack Obama's Knox College Commencement Address. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: I Have a Dream and What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.

Daley, James: - James Daley is a writer, editor, and designer of various paper-based and digital things. Since finishing his MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2004, he has been spending most of his time teaching writing to college students, creating websites about video games, and writing mystery novels about pensive young ne'erdowells. When he's not obsessively poring over pixels and pronouns, he can usually be found arguing with strangers on the Internet or seeking out adventure with his indomitable wife and venturesome daughters.

SKU	GOR001932015
ISBN 13	9780486447612
ISBN 10	0486447618
Titre	Great Speeches by African Americans
Auteur	James Daley
Série	Dover Thrift Editions
État	Très bon
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Dover Publications Inc.
Année de publication	2006-04-28
Nombre de pages	160
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