Final Address in Support of the League of Nations
speakingforleaders Woodrow Wilson · September 25, 1919 Occasion. Pueblo, Colorado, on the western tour to sell the League of Nations and the treaty over opposition in the Senate. A crowd of…
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Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Anita Hill · October 11, 1991 Occasion. Senate Judiciary Committee, televised nationally. The committee is all male. Clarence Thomas is the Supreme Court nominee; her allegations reached the committee late…
Address at the Public Memorial Service for Robert F. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy · June 8, 1968 Occasion. Funeral Mass for Robert F. Kennedy at St. Patrick's Cathedral, three days after the California-primary shooting. President Johnson is in the room.…
Television and the Public Interest
Newton N. Minow · May 9, 1961 Occasion. First major speech as Kennedy's FCC chairman, to the broadcasters he now regulates. The day before, the President had brought Alan Shepard…
The Crisis
Carrie Chapman Catt · September 7, 1916 Occasion. Emergency NAWSA convention, Atlantic City, second-day presidential address. The European war is on; the United States is not in it; both major…
Address to the Jury
Emma Goldman · July 9, 1917 Occasion. Federal courtroom, New York. She and Alexander Berkman are on trial under the Espionage Act for conspiracy to obstruct the new draft after…
1948 Democratic National Convention Address
Hubert H. Humphrey · July 14, 1948 Occasion. Philadelphia convention floor. He is the 37-year-old mayor of Minneapolis, speaking for a minority civil-rights plank against the Southern bloc. Party leaders…
Black Power Address at UC Berkeley
Stokely Carmichael · October 29, 1966 Occasion. Greek Theatre, Berkeley, a mostly white student conference of about 10,000–14,000. Four months earlier, as SNCC chairman, he had shouted "Black Power" on…
Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination
Barry Goldwater · July 16, 1964 Occasion. Cow Palace, San Francisco, after a bitter convention in which Goldwater delegates booed Rockefeller and voted down a plank condemning extremism. The Civil…
Labor and the Nation
John L. Lewis · September 3, 1937 Occasion. Labor Day weekend radio address from Washington. Listeners already know Roosevelt's "a plague on both your houses" during the Little Steel strike…