NEW BLACK ARTISTS PROMOTED BY THE POWER OF THEIR HISTORY
Viola Desmond
challenged racial segregation in 1947 by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. Her most famous quote states the importance of those little bits of good.
EXPLORE THE SPEECHLISTS
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
delivered this iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. There he set the cornerstone of the fight for social justice.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
voice echoed in the Civil Rights Mass Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on May 1963. This extract of his speech underlines the result of an awakened conscience.
Malcolm X
pinpointed during an interview at UC Berkeley in 1963, that sticking together begins by having an independent way of thinking.
Nina Simone
was Interviewed by Peter Rodis in 1968. She delivered one of their most powerful statements about the meaning of feedom.
Rosemary Brown
was the first black woman elected to the provincial government of British Columbia. As she made bid for federal NDP leadership in 1975 she redefined how people should look at equality.
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