Masterpieces Of Negro Eloquence

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Editor

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935

Title

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

African American orators

Category

Text

eBook-No.

22240

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22240

Release Date

August 4, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MASTERPIECES OF NEGRO ELOQUENCE — ALICE MOORE DUNBAR — TABLE OF CONTENTS — PREFACE — THE PEOPLE OF HAYTI AND A PLAN OF EMIGRATION [1] — TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE AND THE HAYTIAN REVOLUTIONS [2] — LIBERIA: ITS STRUGGLES AND ITS PROMISES [3] — WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? [4] [4] — SHOULD COLORED MEN BE SUBJECT TO THE PAINS AND PENALTIES OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW? [5] — YOUNG MEN, TO THE FRONT! — THE CIVIL RIGHTS' BELL [6] — CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL EQUALITY [9] — ALEXANDER DUMAS, FILS [10] — AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY [11] — AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY [12] — A MEMORIAL DISCOURSE [13] — CRISPUS ATTUCKS [14] — ORATION ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF FREEDMEN'S MONUMENT [15] — ADDRESS DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1880 [17] — THE BLACK WOMAN OF THE SOUTH: HER NEGLECTS AND HER NEEDS [18] — AN OPEN LETTER TO THE EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE OF GEORGIA [19] — IN THE WAKE OF THE COMING AGES [20] — AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE COTTON STATES AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION [21] — THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER [22] — AN ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE ROBERT GOULD SHAW MONUMENT [23] — THE LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES OF THE NEGRO RACE [24] — THE PARTY OF FREEDOM AND THE FREEDMEN—A RECIPROCAL DUTY [25] — THE TEACHINGS OF HISTORY CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO RACE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA [26] — A DEFENSE OF THE NEGRO RACE [28] — THE NEGRO'S PART IN THE REDEMPTION OF AFRICA [29] — A PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITY [30] — AN APPEAL TO OUR BROTHER IN WHITE [31] — THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK FOR AFRICA [32] — THE DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON IDEA OF CITIZENSHIP [33] — THE ARMY AS A TRAINED FORCE [34] — THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL AND CHURCH AS A SOLUTION OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM [35] — WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: A CENTENNIAL ORATION [36] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN [37] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM [38] — ADDRESS ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF A LOVING CUP TO HON. JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER, UNITED STATES SENATOR [39] — EQUALITY OF RIGHTS FOR ALL CITIZENS, BLACK AND WHITE, ALIKE [40] — IS THE GAME WORTH THE CANDLE? [41] — SOME ELEMENTS NECESSARY TO RACE DEVELOPMENT [42] — THE TWO SEALS [43] — A SOLUTION OF THE RACE PROBLEM [44] — THE SOCIAL BEARINGS OF THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT — LIFE'S MORN [45] — AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MASSACHUSETTS [46] — THE LIFE OF SOCIAL SERVICE AS EXEMPLIFIED IN DAVID LIVINGSTONE [47] — EDUCATION FOR MANHOOD [48] — A FEW REMARKS ON MAKING A LIFE [49] — EMANCIPATION AND RACIAL ADVANCEMENT [50] — THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO CHURCH [51] — THE NEGRO LAWYER; HIS OPPORTUNITY, HIS DUTY [52] — THE TRAINING OF NEGROES FOR SOCIAL REFORM [53] — INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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