Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
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| Creator: | Ellis, Kate |
| Creator: | Smith, Stephen |
| Title: | Say it plain : a century of great African American speeches / edited by Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Description: | Web site companion to a radio documentary of the same name produced by American Radio Works. The site looks at significant speeches of Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Clarence Thomas, and Barack Obama. It also links to an audio file and transcript of the documentary as well as other links and related resources. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Sound recordings | Documentaries and factual works | Black-and-white photographs | Texts (document genres) | Transcripts |
| Subjects: | Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 | Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 | Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 | Gregory, Dick | Hamer, Fannie Lou | Carmichael, Stokely | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 | Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996 | Jackson, Jesse, 1941- | Thomas, Clarence, 1948- | Obama, Barack | African American civil rights workers--Mississippi | Orators--United States | African Americans | African American political activists | African American politicians | African American clergy | African American civic leaders | African American judges | African American orators | Speeches, addresses, etc. | United States, 37.09024, -95.712891 |
| Institution: | American Public Media |
| Contributors: | American Public Media | American RadioWorks | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Related Materials: | System requirements: American Public Media audio uses both the RealAudio and Windows Media format (Windows Media is only available for our live streams). It is recommended that you have the most current version of the player installed. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/ |