Famous Speeches Sites

• Stokely Carmichael – Black Power [1966]
• Shirley Chisholm – Equal Rights for Women [1969]
• Fredrick Douglass – What to the Slave on the Fourth of July? [July 4, 1852]
• W.E.B. DuBois – Men of Niagara [1906]

Marcus Garvey

• The Conspiracy of the East St. Louis Riots [July 8, 1917]
• “Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” [ July 1921][Audio]
• “Look for Me in a Whirlwind or a Storm” [Audio]
• Marcus Garvey [Quotes]

Sojourner Truth 

• Ain’t I a Woman? [1851]

Websites

• African American History: Major Speeches List Speeches by Great African-Americans from Late 1700s – 2013
• American Rhetoric
• American Speech [Online Journal]
• Famous Speeches & Audio
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
• Great Speeches of the 20th Century
• Say it Plain Say It Loud: A Century of Great African American Speeches 
• Top 100 Speeches

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