Rhetoric of Struggle: Public Address by African American Women
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Title
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Rhetoric of Struggle: Public Address by African American Women
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This edition
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"The Rhetoric of Struggle: Public Address by African American Women" . Ed. Robbie Jean Walker. New York: Garland, 1992. xxii+445 pp.
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Table of contents
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• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
PART ONE: BREAKING THE SHACKLES
• Chronology to Part One
• Introduction to Part One
• Maria Stewart / African Rights and Liberty
• Frances Harper / Liberty For Slaves
• Sarah Parker Remond / Why Slavery Is Still Rampant
• Frances Harper / The Great Problem To Be Solved
• Anna J. Cooper / The Ethics Of The Negro Question
• Ida M. Wells-Barnett / What It Means To Be Colored
• Fannie Lee Chaney / Ben Is Going To Take His Big Brother’s Place
• Constance Baker Motley / Keynote Address
• Mary Church Terrell / Frederick Douglass
• Alice Walker / A Tribute To Dr. King
• Audre Lorde / Learning From the 60’s
PART TWO: CONTENDING FOR EQUALITY
• Introduction to Part Two
• Maria W. Stewart / What If I Am A Woman?
• Sojourner Truth / Woman’s Rights
• Sojourner Truth / When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will Be Right
• Lucy C. Laney / The Burden Of The Educated Colored Woman
• Franny J. Coppin / A Plea for Industrial Opportunity
• Georgia Washington / The Condition of the Women in the Rural Districts of Alabama
• Fannie Barrier Williams / The Problem Of Employment For Negro Women
• Mary C. Terrell / The Progress of Colored Women
• Mary McLeod Bethune / A Century of Progress of Negro Women
• Shirley Chisholm / For The Equal Rights Amendment
• Angela Davis / Let Us All Rise Together
• Alice Walker / The Right To Life
PART THREE: LAYING CLAIM TO THE PROMISE
• Introduction to Part Three
• Mary McLeod Bethune / Breaking the Bars to Brotherhood
• Sadie T. M. Alexander / Founders’ Day Address
• Lorraine Hansberry / A Challenge To Artists
• Patricia Roberts Harris / The Law and Moral Issues
• Edith S. Sampson / Choose One Of Five
• Margaret Walker Alexander / Religion, Poetry, And History
• Shirley Chisholm / It Is Time For A Change
• Coretta Scott King / We Need To Be United
• Alice Walker / The Unglamorous But Worthwhile Duties Of the Black Revolutionary Artist
• Coretta Scott King / The Right To A Decent Life And Human Dignity
• Barbara Jordan / Democratic Convention Keynote Address
• Mary McLeod Bethune / Last WIll And Testament
PART FOUR: PERSPECTIVES ON THE GENRE
• Invention
• Arrangement
• Style
• Schemes And Tropes
• Cultural Referents
• Conclusions
• Glossary
• Selected Bibliography
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Reviews and notices of anthology
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• n/a
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Commentary on anthology
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• "This collection of speeches spans more than a century but is organized by topic rather than chronologically. Some of the "firsts" include speeches by Sojourner Truth, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Barbara Jordan, and Shirley Chisholm" (WorldCat).
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Cited in
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not in Kinnamon 1997]
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Item Number
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A0273
