Anthologies of African American Writing

Rhetoric of Struggle: Public Address by African American Women

"The Rhetoric of Struggle: Public Address by African American Women" . Ed. Robbie Jean Walker. New York: Garland, 1992. xxii+445 pp.

• 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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• "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).

not in Kinnamon 1997]

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