Primary Sources: African-Americans: Speeches

Track 1. Unfulfilled Dreams (Ebenezer Baptist Church - Atlanta, Ga 3/3/68) (21:07)
Track 2. 1976 D.N.C. Keynote Address (New York, NY 7/12/76) (23:19)
Track 3. Field Negro - Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference (Detroit, MI 11/10/63) (19:14)

Be Not Afraid (American Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C. 2/13/01) (47:37)
Pound Cake (50th Anniversary of Brown vs Board of Education Washington D.C. 5/17/04) (03:40)

Track 1. Black Power (Student Conference at University of California, Berkeley, Ca 1966)
Track 2. 2012 R.N.C. Keynote Address (Tampa, Fl 8/29/12) (18:56)

Track 1. Inaugural Address (Cape Town, South Africa 5/10/94) (09:20)
Track 2. Victory Speech (Chicago, Il 11/7/12) (20:26)
Track 3. National Prayer Breakfast (Hilton Hotel, Washington D.C. 2/7/13) (27:09)

performed by Martin Luther King Jr., Minister Louis Farrakhan, Malcolm X, Matin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali and Black Speech All Stars

"Public speech making has played a powerful role in the long struggle by African Americans for equal rights. This collection, for the ear and the eye, highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders."

"The Voices of Democracy project is designed to promote the study of great speeches and public debates. The emphasis of the project is on the actual words of those who, throughout American history, have defined the country’s guiding principles, debated the great social and political controversies of the nation’s history, and shaped the identity and character of the American people. " It is run by the University of Maryland