Pt. 1: speeches to articulate problems
American teamwork / Lester B. Granger
Law and moral issues / Patricia Roberts Harris
United Nations in 1963 / Ralph J. Bunche
Our contemporary world / Carl T. Rowan
Pt. 2: speeches to arouse the national conscience
Deep South crisis / Roy Wilkins
The Negro as an American / Robert C. Weaver
Pt. 3: speeches to affirm rights and responsibilities
Race is not a limitation / William L. Dawson
Desegregate and integrate to what end? / Benjamin E. Mays
Marching blacks, 1965 / Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Address to the 1967 National Convention of the NAACP / Edward W. Brooke
Pt. 4: speeches to assess the past and chart the future
Special address to the 48th annual NAACP convention / Thurgood Marshall
The Negro Methodist churches in America / Archibald J. Carey, Jr.
Founders Day address / Sadie T. M. Alexander
Address to the Mississippi NAACP movement / Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
Annual report to the national CORE convention / James Farmer
Agenda for the future / Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Keynote address to the annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / Constance Baker Motley
Pt. 5: speeches to inspire
Address at the March on Washington / A. Philip Randolph
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose one of five / Edith S. Sampson
Interpretation of the significance of higher education in a segregated society / Howard Thurman
Pt. 6: speeches to enunciate black awareness
The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X
Toward black liberation / Stokely Carmichael.
