african american orators

A collection of writings and speeches by Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a leader in America's abolition movement.

Reproduction of a 1914 text, consisting of a compilation of addresses and speeches by prominent African-Americans from the days of slavery through the early twentieth century, including Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and the editor Alice M. Dunbar.

"Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore and became an extraordinary champion of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. ... With an eye toward explaining how Douglass's religious beliefs shaped his influential public career, Dilbeck retells the story of Douglass's life"--.

Presents speeches given by the twentieth-century's leading African-American cultural, spiritual, and political figures, which includes Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Dick Gregory, Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Martin Luther King Jr., and others.

Contains twelve speeches delivered by Vernon Jordan over the course of his career as president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, Inc., director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council, an attorney in private practice, and in many other roles, from 1971 to 2008.

A collection of twenty speeches that represents the struggle for freedom and civil rights by influential figures in African-American history and culture including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama.