Powerful words

more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans

Presents excerpts from the speeches and writings of over thirty notable African-Americans from colonial times to the twenty-first century, and includes commentary about the time period in which each person lived, information about the speaker/writer, and notes on the public response to the words.

Scholastic Nonfiction
2004
9780439409698
book
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