Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

• ISBN13: 9781461186373
• ISBN10: 1461186374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-14
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

THE BEST SPEECHES DELIVERED BY THE NEGRO FROM THE DAYS OF SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE.Table of Contents Speech topics and the famous people who delivered them.PrefacePrince Saunders The People of Haiti and a Plan of EmigrationJames McCune Smith Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian RevolutionHilary Teague Liberia: Its Struggles and Its PromisesFrederick Douglass What to the Slave is the Fourth of July On the Unveiling of the Lincoln MonumentCharles H. Langston Should Colored Men be Subject to the Pains and Penalties of the Fugitive Slave Law?Richard T. Greener Young Men to the FrontRobert Browne Elliot The Civil Rights BillJohn R. Lynch Civil Rights and Social EqualityAlexander Dumas, Fils On the Occasion of Taking His Seat in the French AcademyJohn M. Langston Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition SocietyFrances Ellen Watkins Harper Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition SocietyHenry Highland Garnet A Memorial DiscourseGeorge L. Ruffin Crispus AttucksP. B. S. Pinchback Address During Presidential Campaign of 1880Alexander Crummell The Black Woman of the SouthJosephine St. Pierre Ruffin An Open Letter to the Educational League of GeorgiaJames Madison Vance In the Wake of the Coming AgesBooker T. Washington At the Opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta Robert Gould ShawChristian A. Fleetwood The Negro as a SoldierCharles W. Anderson The Limitless Possibilities of the Negro RaceWilliam Sanders Scarborough The Party of Freedom and the FreedmenNathan F. Mossell The Teaching of HistoryGeorge H. White A Defense of the Negro RaceLevi J. Coppin The Negro's Part in the Redemption of AfricaFanny Jackson Coppin A Plea for Industrial OpportunityWilliam J. Gaines An Appeal to Our Brother in WhiteEdward Wilmot Blyden The Political Outlook for AfricaW. Justin Carter The Duty and Responsibility of the Anglo-SaxonTheophilus G. Steward The Army as a Trained ForceD. Webster Davis The Sunday-School and Church as a Solution of the Negro ProblemReverdy C. Ransom William Lloyd GarrisonJames L. Curtis Abraham LincolnAbraham Walters Abraham Lincoln and Fifty Years of FreedomArchibald H. Grimke On the Presentation of a Loving Cup to Senator ForakerFrancis H. Grimke Equality of Rights for All CitizensJames E. Shapard Is the Game Worth the Candle?Robert Russa Moton Some Elements Necessary to Race DevelopmentGeorge William Cook The Two SealsJ. Milton Waldron A Solution of the Race ProblemJ. Francis Gregory The Social Bearings of the Fifth CommandmentWilliam C. Jason Life's MornWilliam H. Lewis Abraham LincolnAlice M. Dunbar David LivingstoneKelly Miller Education for ManhoodRobert T. Jones On Making a LifeErnest Lyon Emancipation and Racial AdvancementJohn C. Dancy The Future of the Negro ChurchW. Ashbie Hawkins The Negro LawyerW. E. B. Dubois The Training of Negroes for Social Reform