Revolutionary Era
- Petition for Relief from Taxation
- John Coffe, Adventur Child, Paul Cuffe, Samuel Gray, Pero Howland, Pero Russell, Pero Coggeshall. (Massachusetts, Feburary 10, 1780)
- A Letter to Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamin Banneker (Maryland, August 19, 1791)
Abolition
- If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot
- Frederick Douglass (Syracuse, New York, Sept., 24, 1847)
- Ain't I a Woman?
- Sojourner Truth (Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851)
- What to the Slave on the Fourth of July?
- Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York, July 4, 1852)
- Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
- Frederick Douglas (Washington, D.C., Jan. 1867)
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Civil Rights
- Atlanta Compromise
- Booker T. Washington (Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 18, 1895)
- Democracy and Education
- Booker T. Washington (Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 30, 1896)
- Men of Niagara
- W.E.B. DuBois (Harpers Ferry, W.V., Aug. 16, 1906)
- What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States
- Mary Church Terrell (Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 1906)
- Mob Murder in a Christian Nation — NAACP Speech Against Lynching
- Ida B. Wells (Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 12, 1909)
- Speech on Civil Rights
- Adam Clayton Powell (Washington, DC, Feb. 2, 1955)
- Democratic National Convention Speech
- Fanny Lou Hamer (Atlantic City, N.J., July 22, 1964)
- Black Power
- Stokely Carmichael (Berkeley, California, 1966)
- Democratic National Convention Address: The Rainbow Coalition
- Jesse Jackson (San Francisco, Calif., July 18, 1984)
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