Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham University of Alabama Press, 1998 - 925 من الصفحات An anthology comprising 150-plus selections, making accessible the orations of both well-known and lesser-known African Americans. Each speech is presented with an introduction that sets the context. Many are previously unpublished, uncollected, or long out of print. The volume is based on Philip Foner's 1972 Voice of Black America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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الصفحة 129
... Look at our young men , smart , active and energetic , with souls filled with ambitious fire ; if they look forward , alas ! What are their prospects ? They can be nothing but the humblest laborers , on account of their dark complexions ...
... Look at our young men , smart , active and energetic , with souls filled with ambitious fire ; if they look forward , alas ! What are their prospects ? They can be nothing but the humblest laborers , on account of their dark complexions ...
الصفحة 206
... look upon this Union as one that ought to be dissolved . Oh , Sir ! look at them as they are falling , generation after generation , beneath the sway of the Union , sinking into their ignomini- ous graves unwept , uncared for , unprayed ...
... look upon this Union as one that ought to be dissolved . Oh , Sir ! look at them as they are falling , generation after generation , beneath the sway of the Union , sinking into their ignomini- ous graves unwept , uncared for , unprayed ...
الصفحة 639
... look just like they just come out of dressing rooms . Nebuchadnezzar was there , and he say : " Look in that furnace there . We didn't put but three persons in there , did we ? " And they told him that was so . Then he sure turn pale ...
... look just like they just come out of dressing rooms . Nebuchadnezzar was there , and he say : " Look in that furnace there . We didn't put but three persons in there , did we ? " And they told him that was so . Then he sure turn pale ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Pray God Give Us the Strength to Bear Up Under | 45 |
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