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Say It Plain ─ A Century of Great African American Speeches
- ISBN13：9781595581266
- 出版社：New Pr
- 作者：Catherine Ellis (EDT); Stephen Drury Smith (EDT)
- 裝訂：平裝
- 規格：22.2cm*14.6cm*1.9cm (高/寬/厚)
- 出版日：2007/01/01
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An affordable text-only edition of a century of public speeches by the nation's greatest African Americanorators.
"I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land!"Martin Luther King, Jr.
Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many of them never before available in printed form.
From an 1895 speech by Booker T. Washington to Julian Bond's sharp assessment of school segregation on the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board in 2004, the collection captures a powerful tradition of oratoryby political activists, civil rights organizers, celebrities, and religious leadersgoing back more than a century.
This paperback edition includes the text of each speech along with an introduction placing it in its historical context. Say It Plain is a remarkable historical recordfrom the back-to-Africa movement to the civil rights era and the rise of black nationalism and beyondriveting in its power to convey the black freedom struggle.
Includes speeches by:, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Thurgood Marshall, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond
"I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land!"Martin Luther King, Jr.
Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many of them never before available in printed form.
From an 1895 speech by Booker T. Washington to Julian Bond's sharp assessment of school segregation on the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board in 2004, the collection captures a powerful tradition of oratoryby political activists, civil rights organizers, celebrities, and religious leadersgoing back more than a century.
This paperback edition includes the text of each speech along with an introduction placing it in its historical context. Say It Plain is a remarkable historical recordfrom the back-to-Africa movement to the civil rights era and the rise of black nationalism and beyondriveting in its power to convey the black freedom struggle.
Includes speeches by:, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Thurgood Marshall, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond
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Catherine Ellis is the founder of Audio Memoir, an oral history service that captures her clients’ personal and professional stories using techniques honed by decades of interviewing and broadcast experience. A longtime producer for American Radio WorksR, Ellis has covered twentieth-century American race relations and critical events such as Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession. She is a co-editor (with Stephen Drury Smith) ofSay It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches and Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity and (with Peter Bearman, Stephen Drury Smith, and Mary Marshall Clark) ofAfter the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed, all published by The New Press. Ellis holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, where she studied the competing memories of Jim Crow segregation in the South. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Stephen Drury Smith is the executive editor and host of American RadioWorksR, the acclaimed national documentary series from American Public MediaR. He has covered a wide range of international and domestic issues, including human rights, science and health, education, race relations, and American history. He is a co-editor (with Catherine Ellis) ofSay It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches and Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity and (with Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, and Catherine Ellis) ofAfter the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed, all published by The New Press. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota and Boston, Massachusetts.
Stephen Drury Smith is the executive editor and host of American RadioWorksR, the acclaimed national documentary series from American Public MediaR. He has covered a wide range of international and domestic issues, including human rights, science and health, education, race relations, and American history. He is a co-editor (with Catherine Ellis) ofSay It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches and Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity and (with Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, and Catherine Ellis) ofAfter the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed, all published by The New Press. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota and Boston, Massachusetts.
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