San Antonio College Library

"A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path. For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have been if not for schedule changes, changes of heart, or momentous turns of events. In Undelivered, political speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum presents the most notable...

Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable victory through the last days of his presidency in 2017;...

A nation without color bars or racial prejudice, a world regenerate and just, a land truly of the equal and the free: Martin Luther King, Jr, had a dream. He dreamed it for America, and on August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, he shared it with America. The dream has a history. It was born of oppression; it was nurtured by vision and hope and rhetoric and fire. It was shaped in slave narratives, in letters, diaries, and memoirs, in essays,...

Contains presentation addresses, acceptance speeches, and representative samples of authors' work.

This book brings together for the first time the memoirs, sermons, and speeches of the early writers of the black Atlantic. At the close of the Revolutionary War, more than 3,000 black Loyalists, many liberated from slavery by enlisting in the British army, made exodus in 1783 from New York to Nova Scotia in search of land and freedom. Almost half of the emigrants settled an independent black community at Birchtown, Nova Scotia, where, despite extraordinarily...

CD contains: "Rare and historic performances compiled from the Archives of Smithsonian/Folkways Records, and allows readers to hear a number of the texts from the anthology in the context of an oral perfromance."--Appendix A, p. 2033 "Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition is a compilation of literary and cultural works that originated from call and response patterns in African and African-American cultural...

Contains writings and brief biographical sketches of over fifty African American authors, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, and Sterling A. Brown.