Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895 / Booker T. Washington
Explanation of the objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921 / Marcus Garvey
What does American democracy mean to me? 1939 / Mary McLeod Bethune
Speech at NAACP annual convention, 1947 / Walter White
Personal recording, 1949 / Charles Hamilton Houston
Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Cooper v. Aaron, 1958 / Thurgood Marshall
Community and the self, 1961 / Howard Thurman
Speech at St. John's Baptist church, 1963 / Dick Gregory
Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, 1964 / Fannie Lou Hamer
Speech at University of California, Berkeley, 1966 / Stokely Carmichael
I've been to the mountaintop, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, 1969 / John Hope Franklin
The Black woman in contemporary America, 1974 / Shirley Chisholm
Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, 1974 / Barbara Jordan
Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1978 / Benjamin L. Hooks
The Black presence in America, 1980 / Joseph Lowery
Address to the National Press Club, 1984 / Louis Farrakhan
Keep hope alive : Democratic National Convention, 1988 / Jesse Jackson
Defending our name, 1994 / Johnetta B. Cole
Different voices, common talk : why we need a national conversation about race, 1994 / Lani Guinier
Be not afraid, 2001 / Clarence Thomas
The debt and the reckoning, 2002 / Randall Robinson
The broken promise of Brown, 2004 / Julian Bond.
