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Featured in the New Yorker's "Page-Turner" One of Mashable's "17 books every activist should read in 2019""This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along." --Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn WarrenA stunning collection of prev... Read More about Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews

A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice-with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more. In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth cen... Read More about Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches

Following Say It Plain, a collection of speeches that provides "a sweeping perspective on evolving issues of black identity in the struggle for equality" (Booklist). In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", Say It Plain collected and transcribed speeches by some of the t... Read More about Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity [With CD (Audio)]

On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, as a stunned nation gathered around the radio to hear the latest about Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt was preparing for her weekly Sunday evening national radio program. At 6:45 p.m., listeners to the NBC Blue network heard the First Lady's calm, measured voice... Read More about The First Lady of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts