From Megaphones to Microphones Speeches of American Women, 1920-1960

Subjects:

• History » American History -- 1900 to 1945
• Communications » Rhetoric/Speech
• Women's Studies » Women's Studies (General)

Reviews:

• This wonderful and unique collection of speeches by women presents not only issues vital to women over a 40-year period but a history of American thought. It answers the question, what did women say once they got the vote? What is clear is that what they said is rich with multiracial and multicultural voices, the less familiar speakers as well as the better known often groundbreakers in their actions and words....Highly recommended. Libraries serving all levels of higher education and the general public.
  —Choice March 2004
• [A]cademics and independent scholars interested in social movements, rhetoric or women's history will want the book for their personal collections....It will be a valuable text in many courses in rhetoric and public address or women's studies. Even more important for spreading the word that women did not fall silent upon earning universal suffrage in the U.S. in 1920, this valuable book should become a part of reference collections in libraries at many levels: junior and senior high schools; colleges and universities; public libraries.
  —Women and Language Spring 2004

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• What Next? 1920-1931
• Jane Addams "Address at 'Portrait Monument' Dedication"
• Mary Church Terrell "The Black Mammy Monument"
• Mary Church Terrell "Talk to Young Men of Howard University" March 20, 1925
• Mrs. John P. Gooding "The Conservation Department's Forestry Program"
• Adelaide Steele Baylor "Home Economics Education"
• Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood "Developing Better Understanding and Friendship between the Pan-Americans"
• Mrs. W. R. Alvord "Report of the Department of American Citizenship" (1926)
• Florence Ellinwood Allen "Talk on the Outlawry of War"
• Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Address on the North American Indian"
• Nannie Helen Burroughs "What the Negro Wants Politically"
• Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa, Red Bird) "Speech Before the Indian Rights Association"
• Elizabeth Manroe Sippel "Woman's Importance as an Investor" (radio)
• Florence Jaffray Harriman "Ponds Radio"
• Whose New Deal? 1932-1941
• Ruth Morgan "Campaign Issues Challenging Political Parties, 'Challenge of the Woman Voter'"
• Ella Reeve Bloor "Speech to Milk Shed Conference"
• Blanche Ames Ames "Birth Control"
• Francis Perkins "Social Security Act"
• Anna Kelton Wiley "Philadelphia Branch of the National Woman's Party"
• Eleanor Roosevelt "What Libraries Mean to the Nation"
• Margaret Sanger "Woman and the Future"
• Mary McLeod Bethune "Clarifying Our Vision With the Facts."
• Aimee Semple McPherson "This Is My Task" (radio Sermon)
• General Federation of Women's Clubs--Debate on ERA
• Luisa Moreno "Caravans of Sorrow"
• Speaking of War! 1940-1945
• Eleanor Roosevelt "Speech to the Democratic Convention"
• Dorothy Thompson "The Great Democracy of the Free"
• Hattie Caraway "The Lend-Lease Bill?" (radio)
• Dorothy Day "Address to the Liberal-Socialist Alliance in New York City"
• Clare Boothe Luce "Speech to the Bridgeport Women's Committee of the American Institute of Banking"
• Mary Anderson "Women in Industry" (two radio speeches)
• Ella Reeve Bloor "Women's Role in Winning the War" (radio)
• Mary Beard "Speech to Nurses" (radio)
• Florence Jaffray Harriman "Women and War" (1941)
• Florence Jaffray Harriman "American Soviet Friendship"
• Is That All There Is? 1945-1960
• Helen Gahagan Douglas "My Democratic Credo"
• Mary Church Terrell "Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee on the Equal Rights Amendment"
• Emily Greene Balch "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (second part)
• Margaret Chase Smith "Address to Business and Professional Women"
• Maida Springer Kemp "Talk by Maida Springer"
• Dorothy Kenyon "Speech before Tydings Committee"
• Margaret M. Henderson "Women Share Service for Freedom"
• Justine Wise Polier "Freedom Not Fear"
• Katie Loucheim "Standard Stump Speech"
• Dorothy Shaver "Address before the Philadelphia Fashion Group"
• Fannia Cohn "Talk at the ILGWU Convention"
• Rachel Carson "Acceptance of AAUW Achievement Award"
• Martha Eliot "The Community and Its Children"
• Pauli Murray "Being Good Neighbors"
• Epilogue
• Appendix: Speeches Delivered by Women Published in Vital Speeches of the Day, 1934-1960