The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches

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447 Sources Maria W. Miller Stewart, “Lecture, Delivered at Franklin Hall” (1832). Text taken from Maria W. Stewart, Productions of Maria W. Stewart (Boston: Friends of Freedom and Virtue, 1835), 51–56. Henry Highland Garnet, “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” (1843). Text taken from Henry Highland Garnet, A Memorial Discourse (Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1865), 44–51. Sojourner Truth, “A’n’t I a Woman?” (1851). Salem (OH) Anti-Slavery Bugle version: Text taken from the Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem, OH), 21 June 1851. History of Woman Suffrage version: Text taken from History of Woman Suffrage, ed. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (New York: Fowler and Wells, Publishers, 1881), 1:116. Frederick Douglass, “What to the American Slave Is the Fourth of July” (1852). Text taken from Frederick Douglass, Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester (Rochester, NY: Lee, Mann, and Company, 1852). Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man” (1868). Text taken from Ethel Maude Christler, “Participation of Negroes in the Government of Georgia, 1867–1870.” MA thesis, University of Georgia, 1932. Ms. Christler reprinted the text from a pamphlet supplied her by Bishop J. S. Flipper of Atlanta, GA. Frederick Douglass, “Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Lincoln Monument” (1876). Text taken from Frederick Douglass, Oration Delivered by Frederick Douglass on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument in Honor of Abraham Lincoln (Washington, DC: Gibson Brothers, 1876). Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Duty to Dependent Races” (1891). Text taken from Rachel Foster Avery, Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1891), 86–91. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases” (1893). Text taken from Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” Our Day, May 1893, 333–37. Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Exposition Address” (1895). Text taken from Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1901), 218–25. Mary Church Terrell, “What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States” (1906). Text taken from “What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States, Independent, 24 Jan. 1907, 181–86. There is no author credited by the Independent , but a handwritten version of the piece was discovered in Terrell’s papers. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, “Disfranchisement (1912). Text taken from W. E. B. Du Bois, Disfranchisement (New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association , 1912). 448 Sources Marcus Mosiah Garvey, “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” (1922). Text taken from Marcus Garvey, Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey or Africa for the Africans, ed. Amy Jacques-Garvey (New York: Universal Publishing House, 1925), 2:93–100. Vernon Johns, “Rock Foundations” (1926). Text taken from Human Possibilities: A Vernon Johns Reader, ed. Samuel Gandy (Washington, DC: Hoffman Press, 1977). Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” (1963). Text taken from Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope, ed. James M. Washington (New York: HarperCollins), 217–21. Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” (1964). Text taken from Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, ed. George Breitman (New York: Pathfinder, 1965, 1989), 23–44. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), “Black Power” (1966). Text taken from Stokely Speaks: Black Power to Pan-Africanism (New York: Random House, 1971), 45–60. Martin Luther King Jr., “A Time to Break Silence” (1967). Text taken from Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. James M. Washington (New York: Harper Collins, 1986), 231–44. Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, “It Is Time to Reassess Our National Priorities” (1969). Text taken from Congressional Record (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office , 1969), 115:7765. Barbara Jordan, “Speech on Watergate to the House Judiciary Committee” (1974). Text taken from House Committee on the Judiciary Hearings (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1974). Jesse Louis Jackson, “Speech to the Democratic National Convention” (1984). Text transcribed from videotape by the editors. Video recording of the speech may be found at Great Speeches, vol. 3. Educational Video Group, 2004. . Marian Wright Edelman, “Children’s Legislative Issues” (1985). Speech by Marian Wright Edelman delivered to the National Education Association’s Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education on 22 Feb. 1985. Text transcribed from audiotape in Critical Issues in Education (Washington, DC: National Education Association, 1985). Barack...