Frederick Douglass: Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, by Frederick Douglass, July 5th, 1852.
Ulysses S. Grant: The Siege of Vicksburg (chapter 37 of the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant).
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The American Dream (sermon given on 4 July 1965 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia).
W. Caleb McDaniel: To Be Born On The Fourth Of July. Published by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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