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100 1 Hudson, Wade.
245 10 Powerful words :|bmore than 200 years of extraordinary
writing by African Americans /|cWade Hudson ; illustrated
by Sean Qualls ; foreword by Marian Wright Edelman.
264 1 New York :|bScholastic Nonfiction,|c[2004]
264 4 |c©2004
300 xv, 178 pages :|bportraits ;|c27 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-173) and
index.
505 0 Richard Allen, 1786 -- Samuel B. Cornish & John Russwurm:
from the editorial in the first edition of Freedom's
Journal, 1827 -- David Walker: from Walker's appeal in
four articles, 1829 -- Dred Scott: Dred Scott's petition
to sue for his freedom, 1847 -- Sojourner Truth: an
address to the Ohio women's rights convention, 1851 --
Frederick Douglass: from a speech to the Rochester
antislavery sewing society, 1852 -- Frances Ellen Watkins
Harper: "Bury me in a free land" from the book Poems on
miscellaneous subjects, 1854 -- Henry Highland Garnet:
from a speech delivered in the hall of the United States
House of Representatives, 1865 -- Blanche K. Bruce: from a
speech to the United States Senate on the Mississippi
election, 1876 -- Ida B. Wells Barnett: from A red record,
1895 -- Mary Church Terrell: from an address delivered to
the National American women's suffrage association, 1898 -
- Booker T. Washington: from a speech delivered at the
Cotton state and International exposition, 1895 -- W.E.B.
DuBois: from the souls of black folks, 1903 -- James
Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson: "Lift ev'ry voice
and sing", 1900 -- Marcus Garvey: from a speech delivered
at Liberty hall, 1922 -- Mary McLeod Bethune: from "Faith
that moved a dump heap", 1941 -- Langston Hughes: "The
negro speaks of rivers", 1921 -- Zora Neale Hurston: From
their eyes were watching God, 1937 -- Thomas A. Dorsey:
"Take my hand, Precious Lord", 1938 -- Richard Wright:
From Native son, 1940 -- Paul Robeson: from and address at
a public meeting sponsored by the Council of African
Affairs, 1946 -- George Washington Carver: From The man
who talked with flowers, 1939 -- Thurgood Marshall: From
the summary of argument, Brown v. Board of Education, 1953
-- Rosa Parks: From Rosa Parks, my story, 1992 -- Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: from a speech delivered at
Lincoln University, 1961 -- Malcolm X: from an address
delivered at the Hotel Theresa, 1964 -- Stokeley
Carmichael: from a speech delivered at the University of
California at Berkeley, 1966 -- Alex Haley: from Roots:
the saga of an American family, 1976 -- Barbara Jordan:
From the keynote address, National Democratic convention,
1976 -- Reverend Jesse Jackson: from an address to the
National Democratic convention, 1988 -- Marian Wright
Edelman: From a speech delivered at the Congressional
black caucus conference, 1987 -- Toni Morrison: from the
Nobel lecture in literature, 1993 -- Lauryn Hill: "The
miseducation of Lauren Hill", 1998.
520 A collection of speeches and writings by African Americans,
with commentary about the time period in which each person
lived, information about the speaker/writer, and public
response to the words.
650 0 African Americans|xHistory|vSources|vJuvenile literature.
650 0 African Americans|vQuotations|vJuvenile literature.
650 0 African Americans|vBiography|vJuvenile literature.
650 0 Speeches, addresses, etc., American|xAfrican American
authors|vJuvenile literature.
650 1 African Americans|xHistory|vSources.
650 1 African Americans|vQuotations.
650 1 Quotations.
650 1 African Americans.
650 1 Speeches, addresses, etc.
994 90|bPSS
