Rhetoric & Public Address Selected Speeches
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Anthony, Susan B. "Social Purity." 14 March 1875. Chicago, IL.
Bush, Barbara P. "Wellesley Commencement Address." 1 June
1990. Wellesley, MA.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbarabush.htm
Calhoun, John C. "Slavery a Positive Good." 6 Feb. 1837. US
Senate.
Carmichael, Stokely. "Black Power." 1966. Berkeley, CA.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/stokelycarmichaelblackpower.html
Carter, James E. "Crisis of Confidence." 15 July 1979.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisofconfidence.htm
Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of
July?" 5 July 1852. Rochester, NY.
http://douglassarchives.org/doug_a10.htm
Fisher, Mary. "A Whisper of AIDS." 19 Aug. 1992. Republican
National Convention, Houston, TX.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/maryfisheraids.html
Ford, Gerald R. "Address on Taking the Oath of Office." 9 Aug.
1974. The White House.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/geraldfordpresidentialoath.html
Grady, Henry W. "The New South." 22 Dec. 1886.
http://douglassarchives.org/grad_a12.htm
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." 28 Aug 1963.
Washington, DC.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm
Jackson, Jessee L. "Rainbow Coalition" 18 July 1984.
Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, CA.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jessejackson1984dnc.htm
Le Guin, Ursula K. "A Left-Handed Commencement Address."1983.
Mills College, Oakland, CA.
http://gos.sbc.edu/l/leguin.html
Long, Huey P. "Every Man a King." 23 Feb. 1934.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hueyplongking.htm
Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 12 April 1964. Detroit,
MI.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/malcolmxballot.htm
Nixon, Richard M. "Checkers." 23 Sept. 1952.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/richardnixoncheckers.html
Obama, Barak. "2004 DNC Keynote Address." 27 July 2004.
Boston, MA.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm
Reagan, Ronald W. "Tribute to the Challenger
Astronauts." 28 Jan. 1986.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rreaganchallenger.htm
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "The Destructive Male." 1868.
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/stanton.htm
Tillman, Benjamin R. "The Race Problem from a Southern Point
of View." c. 23 Feb. 1903. US Senate.
http://faculty.etsu.edu/buerkle/courses/rpa/tillman.htm