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Say It Plain
- A Century of Great African-American Speeches
- Narrated by: Michele Norris
- Length: 51 mins
- Audiobook
- Release date: 02-03-05
- Language: English
- Publisher: American Public Media
Regular price: $2.95
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American Radioworks insightfully introduces each speech with enlightening context, detailing the different circumstances, challenges, and death threats these speakers were working under. Listening to these stirring voices and imagining the speakers before you is absolutely the next best thing to being there in person. Expect goosebumps and tears.
Publisher's Summary
Say It Plain delves into a vibrant tradition of African-American oratory that connects figures as different in style and ideology as Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey, Shirley Chisholm and Julian Bond. It's a vivid portrait of black Americans exhorting the nation to make good on its democratic promises.
Producers: Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis
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Assistant Producer: Ellen Guettler
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- greengrassoverthemoon
- 02-10-15
A wonderful synapses of the best of Black leaders.
Heard before and revealed are brave African Americans who dared to speak against America's brutal racial oppression. Voices range from common to the most eloquent. Profound is the variation of how these women and men viewed the destiny of freedom and what would be the most effective strategy to reach this goal. Activists include Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, Marcus Garvey and others. A compilation of riveting voices of "the struggle." After 150 years of the emancipation, sobering is that "the Negro is still not free."
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- David
- San Jose, CA United States
- 02-21-14
Really moving
A lovely collection of speeches. I can't listen to Martin Luther King Jr's last speech without weeping. Knowing what's next is so sad after hearing what he has done, and knowing what he wanted to accomplish. I was a child when Barbara Jordan spoke at the House Watergate Hearings and it was something that struck me even as a child and I've treasured her words ever since. Listen to this one. It's well worth it.
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- A.Taylor
- 02-01-18
Well worth the investment
The narrator did a fine job of introducing scenarios and individuals without seeming overbearing. Great content and presentation of factual events.
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- Nicholas
- 01-19-18
Great Highlights of the Powerful Black Figures
Though these speeches and the people who delivered them have been spoken about for years with great admiration, it was insightful to listen to their speeches in more depth than the snippets we normally hear. Listening to these individuals featured and mentioned in this book makes me want to dig deeper into hearing more from them. As for the audio, I looked the music and actually audio recording that were included in this book. This was a great listen!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-26-17
the greatest speeches
such an inspirational piece of literature of common goal.. greatness was captured with this book.
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- JoAnne
- 07-29-17
These are still the voices all need th hear
I still hear the call to stand up and fight for our children's future.
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- DAMIAN
- 08-12-16
Motivating & Inspiring
You will appreciate the FREEDOM we all have today that is taken for granted never history .
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- Thomas Johnson
- Baltimore, Maryland USA
- 08-04-16
Documentary
Enjoy the program too short but entertaining. will follow up on speakers history on audio
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-12-16
great book
I loves it. it definitely has a very powerful message. it helped me to find my life's purpose
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- Christian
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- 06-09-13
Listen to this - over & over
Wish there were more well produced & documented radio documentaries like this!! it's a must listen!
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- jonathan jordan-july
- 01-13-09
It's 51 minutes long!
I was appalled by the brevity of this audio book.
The subject is vast and has the potential to be riveting so I was heartbroken by the hop, skip and jump approach they've taken to it. There are so many important speeches by so many important people in the civil rights struggle that I cannot communicate my disappointment at their omission and editing.
In terms of included content there are some true jewels here with true life snippets of important speeches going back nearly 100 years (why couldn?t we have them in total without interruption?) and harrowing accounts of brutality which are told in some cases with feeling by people unused to public speaking. I love in particular; Martin Luther King's last recorded speech in which he almost apologises to his audience for being murdered before the struggle is over. It's almost as if he KNEW what would happen the very next day. I'm honoured to have heard that speech and urge publishers to give us a longer more detailed audio book researching and presenting the subject properly. At ?13 this is horrendously priced for 51 minutes.
Having said that I?d happily pay ?50 for a decently presented offering that does the subject some justice.