African-American Orators : A Bio-Critical Sourcebook [Hardcover]

This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th century to the presentof 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.RICHARD W. LEEMAN, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, teaches courses in rhetorical theory, political communication, and African-American oratory. He is the author ofThe Rhetoric of Terrorism(1991) andDo Everything Reform: The Oratory of Frances E. Willard(1992), both published by Greenwood Press.

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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 Grimló®