Blackbirds singing : inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century / Janet Dewart Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Janet Dewart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--History--Sources.

African American women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The New Press, [2024]

Summary:

"An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. These magnificent speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, and Bell's substantive introductions provide rich new context for each woman's speech, highlighting Black women speaking truth to power in service of freedom and justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. Sojourner Truth

Address to the First Annual Meeting of the Equal Rights Association

Ain't I a Woman

Suppose I Am About the Only Colored Woman to Speak for the Rights of Colored Women

2. Harriet Tubman

Liberty or Death

3. Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free

4. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

We Are All Bound Up Together

Woman's Political Future

5. Anna Julia Cooper

Women's Cause Is One and Universal

6. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Lynch Law in America

7. Mary Church Terrell

Solving the Colored Woman's Problem

8. Mary McLeod Bethune

Full Integration-America's Newest Challenge

What Does American Democracy Mean to Me

9. Nannie Helen Burroughs

Black Women and Reform

What the Negro Wants Politically

10. Lucy Diggs Slowe

The Negro and the New Order

Education and Race Relations

11. Ella Baker

Address at SNCC Conference

The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle

12. Pauli Murray

The Negro Woman in the Quest for Equality

13. Dorothy I. Height

Untitled Speech at the Opening of the Bethune Museum and Archives for Black Women

14. Margaret Walker Alexander

Discovering Our Connections: Race, Gender, and the Law

For My People

15. Gwendolyn Brooks

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward

16. Fannie Lou Hamer

I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention

17. Shirley Chisholm

Declaring Presidential Bid

For the Equal Rights Amendment

18. Maya Angelou

On the Pulse of Morning

19. Lorraine Hansberry

The Black Revolution and the White Backlash

20. Myrlie Evers-Williams

Invocation at the 2013 Presidential Inauguration

21. Audre Lorde.

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

22. Barbara Jordan

1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address

Proceedings on the Impeachment of Richard Nixon

23. Marian Wright Edelman

Standing Up for the World's Children: Leave No Child Behind

24. Angela Y. Davis

The Liberation of Our People

25. Kathleen Cleaver

Memorial Service for Bobby Hutton

26. Barbara Lee

Beyond Iraq, Beyond Haiti, and Beyond the Doctrine of Preemption: Once Again It Is Time to Break the Silence

27. Carol Moseley Braun

Announcement Speech for Democratic Nomination

28. Ruby Nell Sales

Can I Get a Witness?

Acknowledgments

Permissions

About the Author

Publishing in the Public Interest

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bell, Janet Dewart Blackbirds Singing

ISBN:

9781620976296

1620976293

OCLC:

1411299738