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(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”
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1963
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(1833) Maria W. Stewart, “An Address at the African Masonic Hall”
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(1832) Maria W. Stewart, “Why Sit Ye Here and Die?”
Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) was one of the first American women to leave copies of her speeches. The address below is her second public lecture. It was given on September 21, 1832 in Franklin Hall in Boston, the meeting site of the new England Anti-Slavery Society. Although as an abolitionist, she
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2012
(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"
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(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
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1940
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(1860) Frederick Douglass, “the Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-slavery?”
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(1963) John F. Kennedy, “We Face A Moral Crisis: The Civil Rights Message to Congress, 1963”
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1963
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(1871) Congressman Jefferson F. Long, “Speech On Disorders In The South”
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