Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches / edited by Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith
Radio documentary on African American orators and their seminal speeches.
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Creator
Ellis, Kate
Contributor to Resource
Smith, Stephen
American RadioWorks
National Endowment for the Humanities
Date of Original
2005
Subject
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi
Orators--United States
African Americans
African American political activists
African American politicians
African American clergy
African American civic leaders
African American judges
African American orators
Speeches, addresses, etc.
People
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
Gregory, Dick
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005
Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
Thomas, Clarence, 1948-
Obama, Barack
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Connerly, Ward, 1939-
Wilson, William J., 1935-
Berry, Mary Frances
Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935-2021
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Moses, Bob
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010
Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5
Medium
sound recordings
documentaries and factual works
black-and-white photographs
texts (document genres)
transcripts
Type
Collection
Description
Web site companion to a radio documentary of the same name produced by American Radio Works. The site looks at significant speeches of Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Clarence Thomas, and Barack Obama. It also links to an audio file and transcript of the documentary as well as other links and related resources., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Contributing Institution
American Public Media
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