The renowned author of the New York Times bestseller Vernon Can Read, on his best speeches and the great tradition of African American oratory
The renowned author of the New York Times bestseller Vernon Can Read, on his best speeches and the great tradition of African American oratory
Introduction ixUrban League Beginnings, 1971 1New Ideas for the New South, 1976 27Battling the Callousness of Political Reality, 1977 45Declaring Our Interdependence, 1979 69Civil Rights: Past Gains, Present Uncertainty, 1981 85Our Children, Our Peers, 1981 109Bad Fix in America: The Reagan Years, 1983 117A Year of Cascading Change, 1989 149A Powerful Voice: Not Stilled, Still Heard, 1993 171Entering the Third Millennium, 2001 183A True Alfalfan at Heart, 2004 199Praising the Lord and the Legacy, 2008 205Acknowledgments 223Index 225