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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Edward M. Kennedy · July 25, 1969 Occasion. Broadcast nationally from Joseph P. Kennedy's home, July 25, 1969, the same day he pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and received…
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