Lecture, delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832) / Maria W. Miller Stewart
An address to the slaves of the United States of America (1843) / Henry Highland Garnet
A'n't I a woman? (1851) / Sojourner Truth
What to the American slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) / Frederick Douglass
I claim the rights of a man (1868) / Henry McNeal Turner
Oration on the occasion of the dedication of the Lincoln Monument (1876) / Frederick Douglass
Duty to dependent races (1891) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Lynch law in all its phases (1893) / Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Atlanta exposition address (1895) / Booker T. Washington
What it means to be colored in the capital of the United States (1906) / Mary Church Terrell
Disfranchisement (1912) / William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
The principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1922) / Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Rock foundations (1926) / Vernon Johns
I have a dream (1963) / Martin Luther King Jr.
The ballot or the bullet (1964) / Malcolm X
Black power (1966) / Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
A time to break silence (1967) / Martin Luther King Jr.
It is time to reassess our national priorities (1969) / Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
Speech on Watergate to the House Judiciary Committee (1974) / Barbara Charline Jordan
Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1984) / Jesse Louis Jackson
Children's legislative issues (1985) / Marian Wright Edelman
Inaugural address (2009) / Barack Hussein Obama.