Ripples Of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

Ripples Of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

by Joshua Gottheimer
Ripples Of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

Ripples Of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

by Joshua Gottheimer

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Overview

Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans, Asian Americans, gays, Hispanic Americans, and women, Ripples of Hope includes voices as diverse as Sister Souljah, Spark Matsui, and Harvey Milk, which, taken as a whole, constitute a unique chronicle of the modern civil rights movement. Featuring a foreword by President Bill Clinton and an afterword by Mary Frances Berry, this collection represents not just a historical first but also an indispensable resource for readers searching for an alternative history of American rhetoric. Edited and with an introduction by former Clinton speechwriter Josh Gottheimer, the stirring speeches that make up this volume provide an important perspective on our nation's development, and will inform the future debate on civil rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465027538
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 08/04/2004
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 568
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joshua Gottheimer is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a student at Harvard Law School. A former Sir John and Lady Thouron Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, he is now a candidate for a doctor of philosophy in modern history there. From 1998 to 2001 he was the special assistant, speechwriter, and staff director to former president Bill Clinton. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Forewordxv
Introductionxvii
Acknowledgmentsxxxix
Early America, Early Dissent 1787-1865
The Curse of Slavery3
Blood and Slavery5
This Is Our Country10
An Address at the African Masonic Hall14
Address to the Massachusetts Legislature19
Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice22
Defending the Amistad Slaves28
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America32
Address at Seneca Falls36
Ar'n't I a Woman?43
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?45
No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery55
Leave Women, Then, to Find Their Sphere59
On Seizing Land from Native Californians62
A House Divided65
No Consciousness of Guilt70
A Day to Celebrate Emancipation72
Second Inaugural Address75
In Praise of Labor77
Measured Gains: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward 1866-1949
We Are All Bound Up Together83
The Myth of "Yellow Peril"87
Suffrage and the Working Woman98
Half Free, Half Slave103
Unsung Heroes109
The First African-American Governor112
The Queens of Womanhood115
Man Cannot Speak for Her120
A Call for Black Women125
The Atlanta Compromise128
Training Negroes for Social Power132
The Progress of Colored Women138
The Last, Hard Fight142
A Moral Partnership Legitimized147
A Defense of Japanese Americans150
Crusade for Women's Birth Control153
Defending Mexican Americans156
A Separate Nation159
A Last Word Before Incarceration166
A Negro Nation Within a Nation170
Fighting Words174
Desegregating the Military178
A Cloud of Suspicion185
Guarding Our Heritage188
Jim Crow Army192
No Compromises196
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights201
The Civil Rights Era: Lift Every Voice 1950-1969
Dismantling Segregation: Brown v. Board of Education207
Montgomery Bus Boycott210
The Homosexual Faces a Challenge216
Federal Court Orders Must Be Upheld222
Civil Rights Message227
I Have a Dream233
We Must Free Ourselves238
Sex Discrimination in the Civil Rights Act241
The Ballot or the Bullet245
A Long, Long Way to Go258
Brotherhood Among Ourselves266
We Shall Overcome270
To Fulfill These Rights275
Day of Affirmation Address282
Furthering the Homophile Movement291
Black Power296
The Silent People No Longer304
The Land Grant Question306
Breaking Bread for Progress315
I've Been to the Mountaintop317
On Martin Luther King's Death318
From Expatriation to Emancipation320
The Real Sexual Revolution327
This Is No Land of Cynics331
Chicano Nationalism: Fighting for La Raza335
For the Equal Rights Ammendment340
Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?345
Take Destiny into Your Own Hands350
The Current Struggle: Slow But Steady Progress 1970-1998
A Chicano Defined355
Roe v. Wade: Legalizing Abortion362
You Can Do It365
Recognition NOW368
America Should Admit Its Guilt372
Tired of the Silence376
That a Past Wrong Be Admitted381
Our Time Has Come: 1984 Democratic Convention Speech384
We Organized392
Acting Up400
Creating Change408
What Gay Consciousness Brings413
Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas418
The Story of Self-Hatred423
Seeking a Conversation on Race427
The Freedom to Die431
We Are at War437
Rejecting Racial Hatred445
The Two Faces of American Immigration450
A Million Men Marching On453
Consciousness Is Power468
Protecting Same-Sex Marriage473
A Shining and Powerful Dream475
Seneca Falls: 150 Years Later481
Afterword489
Credits491
Index495
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