Will of a People - A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches

Informationen zum Autor Richard W. Leeman, professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the author or editor of five books, including African-American Orators: A BioCritical Sourcebook (1996) and (with Bernard Duffy) American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Orators (2005). He has received several awards, including the American Forensic Association's Daniel M. Rohrer research award, and has served as a scholar-in-residence for an NEH-sponsored summer seminar on African American oratory. Bernard K. Duffy, professor of rhetoric in the communication studies department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is the author or editor of six books, including American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources (1987), and has been co-editor/advisor of 32 books on individual American orators published by Greenwood Press. Klappentext This anthology contains the full texts of twenty-two important and eloquent speeches by African American orators, ranging in time from an 1832 speech by Maria Miller Stewart, "Why Sit Ye Here and Die?" to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address.Among the orators included in the collection are Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Barbara Jordan, and Jesse Jackson.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Duffy Leeman, Richard W (EDT)/ Duffy Leeman, LEEMAN RICHARD DUFFY BERNARD
• Assisted by: Bernard Duffy (Editor), Bernard K Duffy (Editor), Bernard K. Duffy (Editor), Richard Leeman (Editor), Richard W Leeman (Editor), Richard W. Leeman (Editor)
• Publisher: Southern illinois univ.press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9780809330577
• ISBN: 978-0-8093-3057-7
• No. of pages: 474
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries