Masterpieces of Negro eloquence
Subtitle: the best speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of slavery to the present time
By: [edited by] Alice Moore Dunbar ; introduction by Akasha Hull.
Contributors: Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935.
Series: African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- African American authors.; African Americans -- History -- Sources.; African American orators.
Description: Her first anthology for students, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (1914) is a compilation of addresses and speeches by both her contemporaries and prominent African Americans of the past. Represented here are such figures as Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, Fanny Jackson Coppin, and W. E. B. Du Bois in a volume dedicated "To the boys and girls of the Negro race ... with the hope that it may help inspire them with a belief in their own possibilities."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Bookery Pub. Co., c1914. With new introd.