Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, 1895 / Booker T. Washington --
Explanation of the objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921 / Marcus Garvey --
What does American democracy mean to me? 1939 / Mary McLeod Bethune --
Speech at NAACP annual convention, 1947 / Walter White --
Personal recording, 1949 / Charles Hamilton Houston --
Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Cooper v. Aaron, 1958 / Thurgood Marshall --
Community and the self, 1961 / Howard Thurman --
Speech at St. John's Baptist church, 1963 / Dick Gregory --
Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, 1964 / Fannie Lou Hamer --
Speech at University of California, Berkeley, 1966 / Stokely Carmichael --
I've been to the mountaintop, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, The New School for Social Research, 1969 / John Hope Franklin --
The Black woman in contemporary America, 1974 / Shirley Chisholm --
Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, 1974 / Barbara Jordan --
Speech at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1978 / Benjamin L. Hooks --
The Black presence in America, 1980 / Joseph Lowery --
Address to the National Press Club, 1984 / Louis Farrakhan --
Keep hope alive : Democratic National Convention, 1988 / Jesse Jackson --
Defending our name, 1994 / Johnetta B. Cole --
Different voices, common talk : why we need a national conversation about race, 1994 / Lani Guinier --
Be not afraid, 2001 / Clarence Thomas --
The debt and the reckoning, 2002 / Randall Robinson --
The broken promise of Brown, 2004 / Julian Bond.