Past Voices – Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy ( 1925 – 1968) / On Guns and American Violence
“I have saved this one opportunity to speak briefly to you about this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and…
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Past Voices – William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs on ‘Black Rage’ / KRON News Footage From 1968
KRON News footage from September 2nd 1968 featuring views of William H. Grier & Price M. Cobb walking down Fillmore Street in San Francisco (between McAllister…
Past Voices – The Speech That Defined the Fight for Voting Rights in Congress – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
Fifty years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which effectively ended centuries of black disenfranchisement by…
Past Voices – Souls of White Folks – W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
“Souls of White Folks.” Originally published in 1920 as the second chapter in “Darkwater – Voices From Within the Veil.” I’m Intrigued “High in the tower,…
Past Voices – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
Delivered at the Unveiling of The Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. April 14, 1876 The Occasion Friends and Fellow-citizens: “I warmly congratulate you…
Past Voices – The Story of Denmark Vesey – Thomas Wentworth Higginson / June 1861 Issue – The Atlantic
On Saturday afternoon, May 26th, 1822, a slave named Devany, belonging to Colonel Prioleau of Charleston, South Carolina, was sent to market by his mistress—the…
Past Voices – “The Negro Question” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
This text was written by Albert Einstein in 1946. I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more…
Past Voices – Remarks by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984), President, Morehouse College, at 42nd Annual Convention of the NAACP, Atlanta, Ga. June 27, 1951
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, theologian, philosopher, educator, civil rights activist, and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King discusses: “The Emerging New South in the Area of…
Past Voices – President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973). Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights.” June 4, 1965
Introductory Comment “In far too many ways American Negroes have been another nation: deprived of freedom, crippled by hatred, the doors of opportunity closed to…