Famous figures, famous speeches
In celebration of Black History Month, throughout February MU faculty, staff and students, as well as Columbia community members, pay homage to famous black orators by performing their historic speeches. The series, “Great African American Speeches,” starts tomorrow, Feb. 4, and runs through Feb. 26 in Memorial Union’s Bengal Lair.
Feb. 4, 11:30 a.m.-noon - Wilma King reads Charlotta Bass’s “Acceptance Speech for VP Candidate of the Progressive Party” and Fannie Lou Hamer’s “Response to the DNC.”
Feb. 4, 2-3 p.m. - K.C. Morrison reads Barack Obama’s “Victory Speech.”
Feb. 10, 3:30-4 p.m. - Christopher Okonkwo reads Malcolm X’s “Speech to the Africa Summit Conference.”
Feb. 12, 2:30-3 p.m. - Danielle Walker reads Nannie Helen Burroughs’s “12 things the Negro Must Do.”
Feb. 13, 12-12:30 p.m. - Addae Ahmad reads Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet.”
Feb. 17, 12:15-12:40 p.m. April Langley reads Francis Harper’s “We Are All Bound Up Together.”
Feb. 18, 2-3 p.m. - David Brunsma reads Stokley Carmichael’s “Black Power.”
Feb. 19, 12:15-12:40 p.m. - April Langley reads Maria Stewart’s “Why Ye Sit Here and Die?”
Feb. 23, 2:30-3 p.m. - Danielle Walker reads Shirley Chisholm’s “I Am For the Equal Rights Amendment.”
Feb. 25, 10:45-11:15 a.m. - Charles Nilon reads “Ten-Point Program and Platform of the Black Panther Party.”
Feb. 26, 2-3 p.m. - Roger Worthington reads Barack Obama’s “A House Divided, or the Race Speech.”
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