Civil rights activist
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.
Regarding the day in 1955 on which Ms. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus for a white man. Widely considered the beginning of the US Civil Rights movement.
Parks, Rosa. Quoted in Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written by David Garrow. William Morrow, 1988, ch. 1.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.
Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 Apr. 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.
Washington, Booker T. "Up from Slavery." The Outlook, 1900.
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Dover Publications, 1995.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Nobel Lecture." Les Prix Nobel en 1964. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.] 11 Dec. 1964, Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Washington, Booker T. "Up from Slavery." The Outlook, 1900.
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Dover Publications, 1995.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1964, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "The Man Who Was a Fool." Detroit Council of Churches' Noon Lenten Services. 6 Mar. 1961, Detroit, MI, USA.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Strength to Love. Harper & Row, 1963, ch. 3.
Chávez, César. "What the Future Holds." Commonwealth Club meeting. 9 Nov. 1984, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Chávez, César. "Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984." The Words of Cesar Chavez. Texas A&M University Press, 2002.
Bethune, Mary McLeod. "Certain Unalienable Rights." What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford Logan. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
Speech at 89th NAACP Annual Convention, July 12, 1998
Bond, Julian. Speech at the NAACP annual convention. 89th NAACP Annual Convention. 12 July 1998, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power. Harper and Row, 1965, ch. 9.
Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 Apr. 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.