Ripples Of Hope Great American Civil Rights Speeches

by Gottheimer, Joshua

• ISBN13: 9780465027538
• ISBN10: 0465027539
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-04
• Publisher: Civitas Books

Summary

Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure. With voices as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Betty Friedan, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, this anthology constitutes a unique chronicle of the nation's civil rights movements and the critical issues they've tackled, from slavery and suffrage to immigration and affirmative action.This is an indispensable compilation of the words --the ripples of hope--that, collectively, have changed American history.

Author Biography

Josh Gottheimer was a speechwriter to President Bill Clinton and a senior advisor to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a Thouron Fellow at Oxford, he is now at Harvard Law School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

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