Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights

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Oct 7, 2010

Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American
Identity. New Pr. 2010. c.304p. ed. by Catherine Ellis & Stephen Dury
Smith. ISBN 9781595581136. $35. HIST

Ellis and Smith (consulting producer and executive editor,
respectively, American RadioWorks; coeditors, Say It Plain: A Century
of Great African American Speeches) take as their starting point the
year 1964 and end during the 2008 Presidential campaign. They include
speeches from a range of activists, politicians, and academics, e.g.,
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby Seale, Angela Y. Davis,
Shirley Chisholm, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and
Michael Eric Dyson, on the subjects of civil rights and race in
America. Excerpts from each speech, as originally delivered, are
included in an accompanying MP3-CD (with the exception of Ossie
Davis's eulogy for Malcolm X). Each entry in the book is preceded by
a biographical introduction (two or three pages), setting the speech
in context. Barack Obama's 2008 address in response to the
controversial statements by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is the final entry.

Verdict While Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches,
edited by Josh Gottheimer, extends from 1789 through 1998, Say It
Loud is an accessible work for general readers and will appeal
especially to those seeking only the more contemporary examples
provided here. This will be an excellent purchase for public and high
school libraries.­Jim Hahn, Univ. of Illinois Lib., Urbana

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