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(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”
Los Angeles newspaper owner and political activist Charlotta Bass began her career as a conservative Republican.  By the 1940s, however, she moved to the political left.  In 1948 she supported Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in his failed bid for the Presidency.  Four years later she was
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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”
? Few Americans are aware of the deep roots of peace activism in the African American community. Benjamin Banneker, the 18th Century mathematician and astronomer, recommended that a “Secretary of Peace” be added to the President’s cabinet whose chief function would be to craft measu
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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"
The National Negro Convention of 1843 was held in Buffalo, New York drawing some seventy delegates a dozen states. Among the delegates were young, rising leaders in the African American community including Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Charles B. Ray and Charles L. Remond. Twenty-seven
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Pilgrim Baptist Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1863- )
Pilgrim Baptist Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is the oldest African American church in the state of Minnesota. A group of escaped slaves began worshiping together in 1863, and under the leadership of fellow escaped slave Robert Thomas Hickman, the church officially became Pilgrim Baptist Church
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15
1866
(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”
In July 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered a major speech at the White House  in defense of Affirmative Action programs across the nation at a time when many critics were calling for their repeal.  He argued that such programs were still needed in a talk he officially titled, The Job of Ending
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1994
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Sharpless, Mattie R. (1943- )
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2001
Malcolm X
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Today the phrase Uncle Tom evokes a powerfully negative image in American society.  It depicts a weak, subservient, cringing black man who betrays his race and its struggle for liberation.  David Reynolds, an English professor in the Graduate School of  the City University of New York
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Ford, Harold Jr. (1970- )
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 11, 1970. He currently serves as chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.  During his tenure in congress Ford represented the state’s 9th
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1970
Gibson, Althea (1927-2003)
Althea Gibson, a sharecropper’s daughter, entered the world of sports when segregation severely limited opportunities for African Americans. She eventually became the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis and
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1927
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(1955) Martin Luther King Jr., “The Montgomery Bus Boycott”
The Montgomery Bus Boycott speech reprinted below is one of the first major addresses of Dr. Martin Luther King.   Dr. King spoke to nearly 5,000 people at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery on December 5, 1955, just four days after Mrs. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish
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1955
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1922
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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional
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