{"product_id":"9781595581266","title":"Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSay It Plain\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul” (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century’s leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many of them never before available in printed form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an 1895 speech by Booker T. Washington to Julian Bond’s harp assessment of school segregation on the fiftieth anniversary of \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board\u003c\/i\u003e in 2004, the collection captures a powerful tradition of oratory—by political activists, civil rights organizers, celebrities, and religious leaders—going back more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes the text of each speech along with an introduction placing it in its historical context. \u003ci\u003eSay It Plain\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable historical record—from the back-to-Africa movement to the civil rights era and the rise of black nationalism and beyond riveting in its power to convey the black freedom struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes speeches by: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary McLeod Bethune \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJulian Bond \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStokely Carmichael \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShirley Chisholm \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLouis Farrakhan \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarcus Garvey \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJesse Jackson \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMartin Luther King Jr. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThurgood Marshall \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooker T. Washington \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalter White\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031394173168,"sku":"9781595581266","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595581266_p0.jpg?v=1769901481","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595581266","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}