African-American Orators

This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th century to the present-of 43 representative public speakers, from W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson to Barbara Jordan and Thurgood Marshall. The critical analyses of the oratory of a broad segment of different types of public speakers demonstrate how they have stressed the historical search for freedom, upheld American ideals while condemning discriminatory practices against African-Americans, and have spoken in behalf of black pride. This biographical dictionary with its evaluative essays, sources for further reading, and speech chronologies is designed for broad interdisciplinary use by students, teachers, activists, and general readers in college, university, institutional, and public libraries.

Introduction
Mary McLeod Bethune by Melbourne S. Cummings
William Wells Brown by Robert L. Heath
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm by Leroy G. Dorsey
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen
Anna Julia Cooper by Drema R. Lipscomb
Alexander Crummell by Detine L. Bowers
Angela Yvonne Davis by Cindy L. Griffin
Father Divine by Mina A. Vaughn
Frederick Douglass by Gerald Fulkerson
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois by Stacy L. Smith and Martha Solomon Watson
Marian Wright Edelman by Beth M. Waggenspack
Louis Abdul Farrakhan by Mark Lawrence McPhail
Lenora Fulani by Mary Anne Trasciatti
Henry Highland Garnet by Cynthia P. King
Marcus Moziah Garvey by Hal W. Bochin
Francis James Grimke by Daniel Ross Chandler
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper by Richard W. Leeman
Benjamin Lawson Hooks by Ede Warner, Jr. and Bernard L. Brock
Jesse Louis Jackson by Lyndrey A. Niles and Carlos Morrison
Vernon Johns by Robert Inchausti, James K. West and Warren Oberman
Barbara Charline Jordan by Carl R. Burgchardt
Martin Luther King, Jr. by John H. Patton
John Robert Lewis by Kurt Ritter and Garth Pauley
Louis E. Lomax by Dale G. Leathers
Thurgood Marshall by Stephen A. Smith
Robert Paris Moses by Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback
Eleanor Holmes Norton by Vanessa Wynder Quainoo
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Enrique D. Rigsby
Colin Luther Powell by Richard W. Leeman
Asa Philip Randolph by Edward M. Panetta
Charles Lenox Remond by Patrick G. Wheaton and Celeste M. Condit
Maria Miller Stewart by Halford Ross Ryan
Mary Eliza Church Terrell by Ruthleon W. Butler and A. Cheree Carlson
Soujourner Truth by Robbie Jean Walker
Booker T. Washington by Stephan E. Lucas
Alyce Faye Wattleton by Lorraine D. Jackson
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett by Virgie Nobles Harris
William Whipper by Thomas M. Lessl
Lawrence Douglas Wilder by Nina-Jo Moore
Fannie Barrier Williams by Wanda A. Hendricks
Walter Edward Williams by Ronald F. Reid
Malcolm X by Mark Bernard White
Andrew Jackson Young by Cal M. Logue and Jean L. DeHart
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