Following the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 striking down the “separate but equal” doctrine, a decade and a half of civil turbulence existed. Civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change. This product tells a part of that historic time with speeches from many of those attempting to achieve racial equality.
Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom
Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott, 6/5/1956
President John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Address to the Nation, 6/11/1963
Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Rally Address, 5/16/1963
March on Washington, 8/28/63, Philip Randolph, John Lewis, Daisy Bates, Bayard Rustin
Malcolm X, Message to the Grass Roots, 1/23/1963
Andrew Young, Reflections on MLK and Malcolm X
President Lyndon Johnson, Signing Civil Rights Bill, 7/2/1964
James Farmer, Speech on Poverty, 10/15/1965
Roy Wilkins, Address at UCLA, 12/2/1965
Martin Luther King Jr., National Health Care Workers Address, 3/10/1968
Martin Luther King Jr., “Been to the Mountaintop,” 4/3/1968
Robert F. Kennedy, Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 4/4/1968
Coretta Scott King, Reflections on Civil Rights Movement
Stokley Carmichael, Civil Rights Rally Address
Ella Baker, “Life is more sacred than property,” 4/24/1968
Angela Davis, Address at UCLA, 10/8/1969
Ralph Abernathy, Committee for Economic Opportunity, 8/15/1987
Nelson Mandela, Address to Joint Session of Congress, 6/26/1990
Rosa Parks, Speech at the Million Man March, 10/16/1995
Dorothy Height, Human Rights Campaign, 11/8/1997
Desmond Tutu, “Reconciling Love,” 11/4/2005
Julian Bond, Speech at National Equality March, 10/11/2009
Roy Innis, Receiving John M. Ashbrook Award, 2/18/2010
Jesse Jackson, Fiftieth Anniversary of March on Washington, 8/29/2013
President Barack Obama, Civil Rights Summit, 4/10/2014
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Language
English
Release Day
Jan 1, 2018
Release Date
January 2, 2018
Series Display String
The Historic Moments in Speech Series
Release Date Machine
1514851200
Imprint
The Speech Resource Company, Inc.
Provider
The Speech Resource Company, Inc.
Categories
History, Americas, Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government, Education & Learning, Words, Language & Grammar, Nonfiction - Adult, Nonfiction - All
Robert Wikstrom is a historian with a professional background in radio and television broadcasting. He founded the Speech Resource Company operating out of Olympia, Washington. He also owns SoundWorks, a spoken word publisher located in Seattle.
www.HistoricMomentsInSpeech.com
Overview
Following the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 striking down the “separate but equal” doctrine, a decade and a half of civil turbulence existed. Civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change. This product tells a part of that historic time with speeches from many of those attempting to achieve racial equality.
Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom
Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott, 6/5/1956
President John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Address to the Nation, 6/11/1963
Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Rally Address, 5/16/1963
March on Washington, 8/28/63, Philip Randolph, John Lewis, Daisy Bates, Bayard Rustin
Malcolm X, Message to the Grass Roots, 1/23/1963
Andrew Young, Reflections on MLK and Malcolm X
President Lyndon Johnson, Signing Civil Rights Bill, 7/2/1964
James Farmer, Speech on Poverty, 10/15/1965
Roy Wilkins, Address at UCLA, 12/2/1965
Martin Luther King Jr., National Health Care Workers Address, 3/10/1968
Martin Luther King Jr., “Been to the Mountaintop,” 4/3/1968
Robert F. Kennedy, Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 4/4/1968
Coretta Scott King, Reflections on Civil Rights Movement
Stokley Carmichael, Civil Rights Rally Address
Ella Baker, “Life is more sacred than property,” 4/24/1968
Angela Davis, Address at UCLA, 10/8/1969
Ralph Abernathy, Committee for Economic Opportunity, 8/15/1987
Nelson Mandela, Address to Joint Session of Congress, 6/26/1990
Rosa Parks, Speech at the Million Man March, 10/16/1995
Dorothy Height, Human Rights Campaign, 11/8/1997
Desmond Tutu, “Reconciling Love,” 11/4/2005
Julian Bond, Speech at National Equality March, 10/11/2009
Roy Innis, Receiving John M. Ashbrook Award, 2/18/2010
Jesse Jackson, Fiftieth Anniversary of March on Washington, 8/29/2013
President Barack Obama, Civil Rights Summit, 4/10/2014
