Letter to Jefferson by Benjamin Banneker Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston by Maria Stewart Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall "America" by James Monroe Whitfield The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth John Brown's Last Speech Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Wall Street Owns The Country by Mary Elizabeth Lease Speech to the Women's Christian Temperance Union by Mary Elizabeth Lease "The Negro Should Not Enter the Army" Statement of the Missionary Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, A.M.E. Church Plain Words Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol A selection from Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood The Thoughts of Muhammad Ali in Exile, c. 1967 A Selection of the Poetry of Langston Hughes Appeal to Adlai Stevenson by Robert Williams Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. The Revolution is At Hand A speech by John Lewis The Ballot or the Bullet A speech by Malcolm X A message to the Grassroots A speech by Malcolm X An End To History by Mario Savio The Basis of Black Power: a SNCC position paper Power Anywhere Where There's People A speech by Fred Hampton Ellen Willis Replies by Ellen Willis The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements by Huey Newton The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison NEW