Negro Orators And Their Orations - Historic African American Speeches on Freedom, Citizenship, and Civil Rights

A landmark collection of African American speeches edited by one of the founding figures of Black historical scholarship. In Negro Orators And Their Orations, Carter G. Woodson gathers speeches that trace the force, dignity, argument, protest, faith, and political intelligence of Black public address across American history. The volume preserves the words of ministers, abolitionists, educators, reformers, political leaders, and advocates whose speeches helped shape the long struggle for fre...