African-American Orators A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Subjects:

• Communications » Rhetoric/Speech
• Multicultural Studies » Black Studies

Reviews:

• Leeman's badly needed collection treats 43 orators.... For each orator, the book gives background information about the speaker, excerpts from speeches, information sources (where the original speeches may be found), titles of biographies, and a chronology of major speeches (title, where delivered, and date). Leeman provides a good mix of historical and contemporary orators, and of men and women....The contributors consist of distinguished speech and communication faculty. This volume should be included in every African American collection and is recommended for all college libraries.
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Table of Contents:

• 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
• Index