Great African American Speeches: Includes Two Bonus Speeches by Nelson Mandela

In this collection, African American leaders change history with the power of the spoken word.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.: I¿ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968), Unfulfilled Dreams (1968).
  
  
• US Representative Barbara Jordan: DNC Keynote Address (1976).
  
  
• Malcolm X: Field Negro vs. House Negro (1963).
  
  
• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: Be Not Afraid (2001).
  
• /Stokely Carmichael: Black Power (1966).
  
  
• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: RNC Keynote Address (2012).
  
  
• President Barack Obama: Victory Speech, Inauguration Speech.
  
  
• Dr. Benjamin Carson: National Prayer Breakfast (2013).
  
  
• Nelson Mandela: United Nations Address (1990), Joint Session of Congress (1990).
  
  
• Reverend Jesse Jackson: DNC Address (1984), DNC Address (1988).
  
  
• Representative Shirley Chisholm: Greenfield College (1983).
  
  
• Secretary of State Colin Powell: TEDxMidAtlantic Conference (2012).
  
  
• Honorable Janice Rogers Brown: Return of the Forgotten Man (2011).

*These are actual historic recordings, the sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era, and varies by recording.

A Blackstone Audio production.