Speech Time Frame: 1901-1950
(1932) Angelo Herndon Addresses His Jury
Angelo Herndon was an African-American Communist organizer who, after working on behalf of poor and unemployed blacks and whites in...
(1950) Ralph Bunche, “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”
In 1950 Ralph Bunche, a political scientist by training and then an official of the United Nations, became the first...
(1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation”
W.E.B Du Bois, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) through most of...
(1948) Bayard Rustin, “Jim Crow Army”
By the early 1960s, Bayard Rustin emerged as a major strategist for the civil rights movement and adviser to Dr....
(1948) Hubert Humphrey, “No Compromises”
Hubert Humphrey Speaking at the 1948 Democratic Convention Image: Public Domain In 1948 Hubert H. Humphrey, then Mayor of Minneapolis,...
(1923) Marcus Garvey, “A Last Word Before Incarceration”
In 1923 Marcus Garvey was convicted on federal charges of mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in...
(1903) W.E.B. Du Bois, “Training Negroes for Social Power”
In this 1903 article published in The Outlook, a New York magazine, W.E.B. Du Bois, then teaching at Atlanta University,...
(1928) Henry F. Coleman, “The Philosophy of the Race Problem (From a Negro’s Viewpoint)”
Very little is known about Henry F. Coleman including the actual date of his 1928 speech which appears below. Nonetheless,...
(1921) Marcus Garvey “Address to the Second UNIA Convention”
By 1921 the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was well on its way to becoming the largest predominately black organization...
