page 112: Speech excerpt of “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.: Reprinted by arrangement with the Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., c/oWriters House as agent for the proprietor, New York, NY. Copyright 1963 Martin Luther King Jr., copyright renewed 1991 Coretta Scott King.
page 114: Speech excerpt of “The Ballot or the Bullet” by Malcolm X: Printed with permission of the Estate of Malcolm X. All Rights Reserved.
page 122: Lyric excerpt of “Say It Loud” by James Brown, 1968. Reprinted with permission of the Estate of James Brown.
page 124: “I, Too,” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
page 125: From Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin. Copyright © 1955, renewed 1983, by James Baldwin. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.
page 126: From “On the Pulse of Morning,” by Maya Angelou, copyright © 1983 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
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