Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the Days of Slavery to the Present Time"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.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
PRINCE SAUNDERS | 13 |
JAMES MCCUNE SMITH | 19 |
HILARY TEAGUE | 33 |
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