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Charles Sumner, "On Slavery and the Mexican War," a speech delivered at a public meeting in the Tremont Temple, November 5, 1846, The Works of Charles Sumner (Boston: Lee & Shepherd, 1875), 333-351. (Google Books) Thomas Corwin, "On the Mexican War," speech to the United States Senate, February 11, 1847, Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, edited by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1905). (Google Books) U.S.- Mexican War, PBS.   U.S. - Mexican War, Descendants of Mexican War Veterans.

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Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963), Stanford University.

Echoing Thoreau in the 1960's, Multimedia Thoreau, UMass Lowell/Thoreau Society.

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Freedom Singers, "Fighting For My Rights," Newport Broadside, 1963 (Vanguard Records, 1991). (excerpt .mp3)

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