Famous Speeches of Black Americans available online:

Malcolm X Abducted By Aliens




Muhammad Ali “Why is Jesus White?”




Marcus Garvey “Freedom Speech Part 2”




Paul Robeson – “Fight Back Compilation”




Malcolm X “Ballot or the Bullet”




Martin Luther King, Jr. “Don’t Let Anybody Take Your Manhood”




Patrice Lumumba




Booker T. Washington “Atlanta Compromise Speech”

Required Listening and Readings:

1. Former Slave Charlie Smith Discusses Work and Living Situation After Emancipation

2. Frederick Douglass – My Bondage My Freedom

3. W.E.B. DuBois – The Souls of Black Folk

4. Booker T. Washington – Up From Slavery

5. Carter G. Woodson – The Mis-Education of the Negro

6. Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf

7. Paul Robeson, Jr. – The Undiscovered Paul Robeson
(Quest for Freedom 1939-1976)

8. Lerone Bennett – Before the Mayflower

9. Eldridge Cleaver – Soul On Ice

10. Tommie Smith - Silent Gesture

11. Barak H. Obama - Dreams From My Father

12. Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

13. Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. – Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

14. William Loren Katz – Black Indians (A Hidden Heritage)

15. El Hajj Malik El Shabazz - The Diary of Malcolm X - 1964

16. Paul Robeson – Here I Stand

17. Belinda Hurmence – My Folks Don’t Want Me to Talk About Slavery

18. Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker – Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun

19. Douglas A. Blackmon – Slavery by Another Name

20. Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor – Einstein on Race and Racism

21. Colin Powell – It Worked For Me In Life and Leadership

22. James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man