Say It Loud

Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Malcolm X: "The Ballot or the Bullet,” 1964 Lorraine Hansberry: "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash,” 1964 Ossie Davis: Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 Martin Luther King Jr.: "Where Do We Go from Here?” 1967 Roy Wilkins: Speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968 Benjamin E. Mays: Eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr., 1968 Kathleen Cleaver: Speech delivered at Memorial Service for Bobby Hutton, 1968 Bobby Seale: Speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968 Ella Baker: Speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968 Shirley Chisholm: Speech at Howard University, 1969 Angela Y. Davis: Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972 Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.: Speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978 Dorothy I. Height: Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979 James H. Cone: "The Relationship of the Christian Faith to Political Praxis,” 1980 Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize Lecture, 1993 Colin Powell: Commencement Address at Howard University, 1994 Mary Frances Berry: "One Hundredth Anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson,” 1996 Ward Connerly: "America: A Nation of Equals,” 1998 Condoleezza Rice: Speech to National Council of Negro Women, 2001 Maxine Waters: "Youth and the Political Process,” 2003 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: "America Beyond the Color Line,” 2004 Michael Eric Dyson: "Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?” 2005 Barack Obama: "A More Perfect Union,” 2008 Notes Permissions