Title: Activist rhetorics and American higher education, 1885-1937
Description: "In this study of the history of rhetoric education, Susan Kates focuses on the writing and speaking instruction developed at three academic institutions founded to serve three groups of students most often excluded from traditional institutions of higher education in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America: white middle-class women, African Americans, and members of the working class."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Education (Higher), Study and teaching (Higher), Social aspects, Rhetoric, English language, Minorities, Report writing, Study and teaching, Alternative education, Women, History, English language, rhetoric, United States
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century