Sentences with phrase «american orators»

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Douglass (1817 - 1895) was an African American Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) clergyman who was born into slavery and who escaped from slavery and joined the abolitionists» struggle as an internationally known orator, fund raiser, newspaper publisher, and editor.

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous «I Have a Dream» speech and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

Born a Slave, Frederick Douglass became an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, statemen and reformer.

Pujol is currently working on four new performance commissions for 2011 - 2012, including: Visitation, for the Spencer Museum of Art, a 6 - hour solo performance as an intervention throughout the museum of the embodied gaze of the artist; Walking Ground: Speaking in Silence, for the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, for 7 performers scattered throughout the city as public orators; Affinitas, a 2 - hour dance performance in honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in Boston; and a new American performance opera, Vortex, choreographed for 12 women.