The Voice of a People

Speeches from Black America

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• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781513224763
• eBook ISBN: 9781513298535
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: Literature

The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America is a collection of speeches from some of the leading African American intellectuals, artists, activists, and organizers of the past three centuries.

While many of their names?such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Frederick Douglass?will be familiar to most readers, some?such as Jermain Wesley Loguen, Randall Albert Carter, and Samuel H. Davis?are less well known, but no less important to the history of Black America.

The individuals whose voices make up this collection come from a range of professional and personal backgrounds. Many of them were born into slavery. Some escaped. Some were poets, preachers, ministers, and bishops. Some were educators, activists, academics, abolitionists, and suffragists. All of them, despite their differences, contributed to the vibrant, invaluable history of a people who first built this nation before fighting to reclaim its soul for future generations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Note from the Publisher
• Contents
• Jupiter Hammon, “An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York”
• Maria W. Stewart, “Why Sit Ye Here and Die”
• Maria W. Stewart, “Education for African American Women”
• Maria W. Stewart, “An Address at the African Masonic Hall”
• Theodore S. Wright, “Prejudice Against the Colored Man”
• Samuel H. Davis, “We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause”
• Henry Highland Garnet, “An Address to the Slaves of the United States”
• Frederick Douglass, “My Slave Experience in Maryland”
• Frederick Douglass, “On Woman Suffrage”
• Lucy Stanton, “A Plea for the Oppressed”
• Rev. Jermain Wesley Lougen, “I Won’t Obey the Fugitive Slave Law”
• Sojourner Truth, “Ar’nt I a Woman?”
• Frederick Douglass, “What, To the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?”
• Frederick Douglass, “If There is No Struggle, There is No Progress”
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Liberty for Slaves”
• Frederick Douglass, “The Mission of the War”
• Frederick Douglass, “What Do Black Men Want”
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “We Are All Bound Up Together”
• Frederick Douglass, “Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage”
• Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”
• Ferdinand L. Barnett, “Race Unity,”
• Lucy E. Parsons, “I Am An Anarchist”
• Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases”
• Anna Julia Cooper, “Women’s Cause is One and Universal”
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Woman’s Political Future”
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women”
• Booker T. Washington, “Democracy and Education”
• Mary Church Terrell, “In Union There is Strength”
• Alexander Crummell, “The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect”
• Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “The Negro Will Never Acquiesce”
• Ida B. Wells, “The Progress of Colored Women”
• Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
• Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”
• W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World”
• Mary Church Terrell, “What it Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the U.S.”
• Ida B. Wells, “Lynching, Our National Crime”
• William Pickens, “The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects”
• Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, Or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”
• James Weldon Johnson, “Our Democracy and the Ballot”
• Bishop Randall Albert Carter, “Whence and Whiter”
• Profile of the Speakers
• A Note About the Book
• A Note from the Publisher