Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X,

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This inexpensive compilation of the great abolitionist's speeches includes "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852), "The Church and Prejudice" (1841),

In 2005' The New Press published Say It Plain' the celebrated companion to the American Radio Works American Public Media documentary chronicling the great trad

The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change. And for everycritical, defining moment in Amer