The Educational and Industrial Emancipation of the Negro
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentleman: I cannot bring myself to feel that I am worthy of speaking to the members of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on the occasion […]
An Address on Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: You ask that which he found a piece of property and turned into a free American citizen to speak to you tonight on Abraham Lincoln. […]
An Abraham Lincoln Memorial Address in Philadelphia
Gentlemen: You ask one whom the Great Emancipator found a piece of property and left an American citizen to speak of Abraham Lincoln. My first acquaintance with our hero and […]
The Problem of the South
Ladies and Gentlemen: We stand tonight on historic ground. Charleston and South Carolina have made history — history that will always occupy a prominent place in the annals of our […]
A Speech at the Unveiling of the Robert Gould Shaw Monument
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens: In this presence, and on this sacred and memorable day, in the deeds and death of our hero, we recall the old, old story, ever old, […]
Lincoln as a Leader of Men
The life of Abraham Lincoln is full of appeals to the imagination; its dramatic quality absorbs attention. The humble beginnings, the early poverty, the slender opportunity for even the simplest […]
What is Constitutional Government?
Wilson, Woodrow. Constitutional Government in the United States. United States: Columbia University Press, 1908. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Constitutional_Government _in_the_United/CsWh4c7X-Y0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true Prefatory Note These lectures are not intended as a systematic discussion of the character and operation of the government […]
Racial Ideals
The coming together, all over this country, of fully six million people of Negro blood, to work for the creation of a nation of their own in their motherland, Africa, […]
Aims and Objects of the Movement for Solution of the Negro Problem
Generally the public is kept misinformed of the truth surrounding new movements of reform. Very seldom, if ever, reformers get the truth told about them and their movements. Because of […]
The Negro’s Place in World Reorganization
Gradually we are approaching the time when the Negro peoples of the world will have either to consciously, through their own organization, go forward to the point of destiny as […]