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Title
Negro orators and their orations / [edited] by Carter G. Woodson.
Call Number
N-003706
PS663.N4 W6 1925
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9k41zv42p
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1925.
©1925.
Language
English
Date Created
1925
Format
Book
Extent
xi, 711 pages ; 23 cm
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
The first protest
Negro slavery / by "Othello"
Slavery / by "A Free Negro"
More forceful attacks
Oration on the abolition of the slave trade / by Peter Williams
A late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania / by James Forten
An address to the humane and benevolent inhabitants of the City and County of Philadelphia / by James Forten and Russell Perrott
Promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race / by Prince Saunders
The abolition of slavery in New York / by N. Paul
Slavery and colonization / by Peter Williams
Prejudice against the colored man / by Theodore S. Wright
Further efforts for a hearing
Appeal of forty thousand citizens threatened with disfranchisement / by Robert Purvis
Non-resistance to offensive aggression / by William Whipper
The abolition of slavery and the slave trade / by James McCune Smith
The oratory of the crisis
Slavery as it concerns the British / by Charles Lenox Remond
Slavery and the Irish / by Charles Lenox Remond
The rights of colored citizens in traveling / by Charles Lenox Remond
An address to the slaves of the United States of America / by Henry Highland Garnet
Reception Speech at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfield, England, May 12, 1846 / by Frederick Douglass
Speech in Faneuil Hall, June 8, 1849 / by Frederick Douglass
The oratory of defiance
Speech on the fugitive slave bill / by Samuel R. Ward
Speech at Rochester, July 5, 1852 / by Frederick Douglass
The slavery party / by Frederick Douglass
Speech before the New England Antislavery Convention, 1854 / by Charles Lenox Remond
An antislavery discourse / by Charles Lenox Remond
The auspicious dawn of Negro rule / by Theodore Holly
A Union speech / by Frederick Douglass
"Men of color, to arms" / by Frederick Douglass
A speech before the Paris Antislavery Conference, August 27, 1867 / by Sella Martin
Deliberative oratory
speeches of Negro congressmen
The Negro's first speech in Congress / by John Willis Menard
An address before the United States Senate in behalf of admitting P.B.S. Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana / by B.K. Bruce
A speech on election practices in Mississippi / by B.K. Bruce
A speech in the case of a contested election / by John R. Lynch
A speech on the Georgia bill / by Hiram R. Revels
A speech on disorders in the South / by Jefferson F. Long
A speech on the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment / by R.C. DeLarge
The Southern situation / by Joseph H. Rainey
A speech on the civil rights bill / by R.B. Elliott
A speech on the civil rights bill / by Richard H. Cain
A speech on the civil rights bill / by James T. Rapier
A speech on the civil rights bill / by John R. Lynch
A speech on South Carolina / by Joseph H. Rainey
A speech on education / by Joseph H. Rainey
A speech laudatory of the Negro / by J.M. Langston
A speech in defense of the Negro race / by George H. White
Speeches of Negro congressmen outside of Congress
Speech delivered at Charleston, S.C., March 9, 1871 / by A.J. Ransier
The other phase of reconstruction / by J.M. Langston
Equality before the law / by J.M. Langston
Oratory in the solution of the race problem
The Negro exodus from the Gulf States / by Frederick Douglass
The emigration of colored citizens from the Southern States / by R.T. Greener
The race problem stated / by Joseph C. Price
The panegyric
Eulogy on Charles Sumner / by Robert B. Elliott
An oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln / by Frederick Douglass
An address delivered at the dedication of the Robert Gould Shaw monument at Boston, May 31, 1897 / by Booker T. Washington
William Lloyd Garrison: a centennial oration / by Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom
Lincoln, the man of the hour / by M.C.B. Mason
Abraham Lincoln and fifty years of freedom / by Bishop Alexander Walters
An address before the Massachusetts House of Representatives, February 12, 1913 / by William H. Lewis
The Negro's debt to Lincoln / by Robert Russa Moton
Optimistic oratory
An address delivered at the opening of the Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1895 / by Booker T. Washington
An address delivered at the Harvard alumni dinner in 1896 / by Booker T. Washington
Freedom through education / by Roscoe Conkling Bruce
Booker T. Washington, a lover of his fellowmen / by William H. Lewis
A life of achievement / by Robert R. Moton
Memorial address delivered at the seventeenth annual session of the National Negro Business League, Kansas City, Missouri, August 16, 1916 / by Emmet J. Scott
Occasional oratory
A plea for a suspension of judgment / by Bishop W.T. Vernon
Whence and whither? / by Bishop R.A. Carter
Boards for life's building / by Bishop G.C. Clement
A knowledge of history conducive to racial solidarity / by C.V. Roman
Progressive oratory
The kind of democracy the Negro race expects / by William Pickens
The faith of the American Negro / by Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Our democracy and the ballot / by James Weldon Johnson
The shame of America / by Archibald H. Grimké
Victory for the Allies and the United States, a ground of rejoicing, of thanksgiving / by Rev. Francis J. Grimké.
I. Introduction
II. The first protest
III. More forceful attacks
IV. Further efforts for a hearing
V. The oratory of crisis
VI. The oratory of defiance
VII. Deliberative oratory, speeches of Negro congressmen
VIII. Speeches of Negro congressmen outside of Congress
IX. Oratory in the solution of the race problem
X. The panegyric
XI. Optimistic oratory
XII. Occasional oratory
XIII. Progressive oratory

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Subject
Speeches, addresses, etc., American—African American authors

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736

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Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
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