"What Have We to Hail?" The One Speech We Should Study
Fannie Lou Hamer’s “What Have We to Hail?” delivered in Kentucky during the Summer of 1968 would be the speech I would choose as a...
Fannie Lou Hamer
The Prompt (containing background information) Hamer would seem to be the opposite of King. He grew up in Atlanta; his parents were...
Douglass’ “The Lessons of the Hour”, Part II
“But my friends, I must stop. Time and strength are not equal to the task before me. But could I be heard by this great nation, I would...
Douglass' "Lessons of the Hour"
In the first three paragraphs of his last speech, “Lessons of the Hour (1894),” Frederick Douglass, already well known, introduces...
No Liminal Moment for Frederick Douglass: It's All a Process of Maturation
There is a process of maturation in Frederick Douglass’ Narrative, but there never appears to be a liminal moment unless one counts every...
Frederick Douglass
Like other slaves, Douglass had no knowledge of his birthday, and while this made him unhappy because he did not see that he should be so...