The civil rights movement

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
• http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html
• http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/intro.htm
• http://www.atlantahighered.org/civilrights/index.asp

More on speakers featured in Say It Plain

• Booker T. Washington
  Booker T. Washington Papers / The History Cooperative / University of Illinois Press
  http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/
  Up From Slavery: An Autobiography / University of North Carolina
  http://docsouth.unc.edu/washington/menu.html
• Marcus Garvey
  The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
  http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/
  American Experience / Marcus Garvey, Look For Me in the Whirlwind / PBS
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/
  Marcus Garvey - The Official Site
  http://www.marcusgarvey.com/
  BBC biography
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garvey_marcus.shtml
• Mary McLeod Bethune
  Biography from greatwomen.org
  http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=18
  University of South Carolina - Aiken biography
  http://www.usca.edu/aasc/bethune.htm
  Bethune-Cookman College / Mary McLeod Bethune and the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center
  http://www.cookman.edu/mmbpac/history.shtml
• Dick Gregory
  Dick Gregory Global Watch
  http://www.dickgregory.com/
  Biography
  http://www.dickgregory.com/about_dick_gregory.html
• Fannie Lou Hamer
  Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
  http://www.crmvet.org/mem/hamer.htm
  Biography from greatwomen.org
  http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=72
• Stokely Carmichael
  University of Washington page on Stokely Carmichael's April 19, 1967 speech at Garfield High School in Seattle, WA
  http://courses.washington.edu/spcmu/carmichael/
  Dr. MLK Jr. Papers Project - Stokely Carmichael
  http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/carmichael_stokely.html
  Kwame Ture
  http://www.kwameture.com/
  PBS / A Huey P. Newton Story / Stokely Carmichael
  http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/people/people_carmichael.html
  New York Times - "Stokely Carmichael, Rights Leader Who Coined 'Black Power,' Dies at 57"
  http://interchange.org/Kwameture/nytimes111698.html
• Martin Luther King Jr.
  Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
  http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
  The Seattle Times' MLK page
  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
• Shirley Chisholm
  Congressional biography for Rep. Shirley Chisholm
  http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000371
  "Chisholm '72 - Unbought & Unbossed" - a film on Shirley Chisholm, directed by Shola Lynch.
  http://www.chisholm72.net/
  Biography from greatwomen.org
  http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=39
  PBS biography
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/shirley_chisholm.html
  NPR / Shirley Chisholm, Congressional Pioneer, Dies at 80 by Melissa Block
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4256617
• Barbara Jordan
  Congressional biography for Rep. Barbara Jordan
  http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000266
  Rice University / Armadillo / Barbara Jordan
  http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/jordan.html
• Jesse Jackson
  Rainbow / Push Coalition biography
  http://www.rainbowpush.org/founder/
  PBS / The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/jesse/
• Clarence Thomas
  PBS biography
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/supreme_court/judge_thomas.html
  Supreme Court History Society biography
  http://www.supremecourthistory.org/myweb/justice/thomas.htm
• Barack Obama
  Official Barack Obama site
  http://obama.senate.gov
  Campaign blog
  http://www.obamablog.com/
  Campaign Web site
  http://www.obamaforillinois.com/

Great American speeches

• http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
• http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html

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