"The ballot or the bullet, " 1964 / Malcolm X -- "The Black revolution and the White backlash, " 1964 / Lorraine Hansberry -- Eulogy for Malcolm X, 1965 / Ossie Davis -- "Where do we go from here?" 1967 / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Speech on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968 / Roy Wilkins -- Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 / Benjamin E. Mays -- Speech delivered at memorial service for Bobby Hutton, 1968 / Kathleen Cleaver -- Speech delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater, 1968 / Bobby Seale -- Speech to Southern Conference Education Fund, 1968 / Ella Baker -- Speech at Howard University, 1969 / Shirley Chisholm -- Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, 1972 / Angela Y. Davis -- Speech delivered at the National Press Club, 1978 / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. -- Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women, 1979 / Dorothy I. Height -- "The relationship of the Christian faith to political praxis, " 1980 / James H. Cone -- Nobel Prize lecture, 1993 / Toni Morrison -- Commencement address at Howard University, 1994 / Colin Powell -- "One hundredth anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson, " 1996 / Mary Frances Berry -- "America : a nation of equals, " 1998 / Ward Connerly -- Speech to National Council of Negro Women, 2001 / Condoleezza Rice -- "Youth and the political process, " 2003 / Maxine Waters -- "America beyond the color line, " 2004 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- "Has the Black middle class lost its mind?" 2005 / Michael Eric Dyson -- "A more perfect union, " 2008 / Barack Obama.