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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 |
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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
Foreword | xv | |
Introduction | xvii | |
Acknowledgments | xxxix | |
Early America, Early Dissent 1787-1865 | ||
The Curse of Slavery | 3 | |
Blood and Slavery | 5 | |
This Is Our Country | 10 | |
An Address at the African Masonic Hall | 14 | |
Address to the Massachusetts Legislature | 19 | |
Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice | 22 | |
Defending the Amistad Slaves | 28 | |
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America | 32 | |
Address at Seneca Falls | 36 | |
Ar'n't I a Woman? | 43 | |
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | 45 | |
No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery | 55 | |
Leave Women, Then, to Find Their Sphere | 59 | |
On Seizing Land from Native Californians | 62 | |
A House Divided | 65 | |
No Consciousness of Guilt | 70 | |
A Day to Celebrate Emancipation | 72 | |
Second Inaugural Address | 75 | |
In Praise of Labor | 77 | |
Measured Gains: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward 1866-1949 | ||
We Are All Bound Up Together | 83 | |
The Myth of "Yellow Peril" | 87 | |
Suffrage and the Working Woman | 98 | |
Half Free, Half Slave | 103 | |
Unsung Heroes | 109 | |
The First African-American Governor | 112 | |
The Queens of Womanhood | 115 | |
Man Cannot Speak for Her | 120 | |
A Call for Black Women | 125 | |
The Atlanta Compromise | 128 | |
Training Negroes for Social Power | 132 | |
The Progress of Colored Women | 138 | |
The Last, Hard Fight | 142 | |
A Moral Partnership Legitimized | 147 | |
A Defense of Japanese Americans | 150 | |
Crusade for Women's Birth Control | 153 | |
Defending Mexican Americans | 156 | |
A Separate Nation | 159 | |
A Last Word Before Incarceration | 166 | |
A Negro Nation Within a Nation | 170 | |
Fighting Words | 174 | |
Desegregating the Military | 178 | |
A Cloud of Suspicion | 185 | |
Guarding Our Heritage | 188 | |
Jim Crow Army | 192 | |
No Compromises | 196 | |
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 201 | |
The Civil Rights Era: Lift Every Voice 1950-1969 | ||
Dismantling Segregation: Brown v. Board of Education | 207 | |
Montgomery Bus Boycott | 210 | |
The Homosexual Faces a Challenge | 216 | |
Federal Court Orders Must Be Upheld | 222 | |
Civil Rights Message | 227 | |
I Have a Dream | 233 | |
We Must Free Ourselves | 238 | |
Sex Discrimination in the Civil Rights Act | 241 | |
The Ballot or the Bullet | 245 | |
A Long, Long Way to Go | 258 | |
Brotherhood Among Ourselves | 266 | |
We Shall Overcome | 270 | |
To Fulfill These Rights | 275 | |
Day of Affirmation Address | 282 | |
Furthering the Homophile Movement | 291 | |
Black Power | 296 | |
The Silent People No Longer | 304 | |
The Land Grant Question | 306 | |
Breaking Bread for Progress | 315 | |
I've Been to the Mountaintop | 317 | |
On Martin Luther King's Death | 318 | |
From Expatriation to Emancipation | 320 | |
The Real Sexual Revolution | 327 | |
This Is No Land of Cynics | 331 | |
Chicano Nationalism: Fighting for La Raza | 335 | |
For the Equal Rights Ammendment | 340 | |
Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good? | 345 | |
Take Destiny into Your Own Hands | 350 | |
The Current Struggle: Slow But Steady Progress 1970-1998 | ||
A Chicano Defined | 355 | |
Roe v. Wade: Legalizing Abortion | 362 | |
You Can Do It | 365 | |
Recognition NOW | 368 | |
America Should Admit Its Guilt | 372 | |
Tired of the Silence | 376 | |
That a Past Wrong Be Admitted | 381 | |
Our Time Has Come: 1984 Democratic Convention Speech | 384 | |
We Organized | 392 | |
Acting Up | 400 | |
Creating Change | 408 | |
What Gay Consciousness Brings | 413 | |
Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas | 418 | |
The Story of Self-Hatred | 423 | |
Seeking a Conversation on Race | 427 | |
The Freedom to Die | 431 | |
We Are at War | 437 | |
Rejecting Racial Hatred | 445 | |
The Two Faces of American Immigration | 450 | |
A Million Men Marching On | 453 | |
Consciousness Is Power | 468 | |
Protecting Same-Sex Marriage | 473 | |
A Shining and Powerful Dream | 475 | |
Seneca Falls: 150 Years Later | 481 | |
Afterword | 489 | |
Credits | 491 | |
Index | 495 |
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