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Masterpieces of Negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of slavery to the present time; edited by Alice Moore Dunbar.

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Title
Masterpieces of Negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of slavery to the present time; edited by Alice Moore Dunbar.
Names
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 (Editor)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1914
Place: New York
Publisher: The Bookery Pub. Co.
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Micro R-963
Topics
African Americans
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Genres
Books
Notes
Content: Contents (cont.): --James E. Shepard: Is the game worth the candle?--Robert Russa Moton: Some elements necessary to race development.--George William Cook: The two seals.--J. Milton Waldron: A solution of the race problem.--J. Francis Gregory: The social bearings of the fifth commandment.--William C. Jason: Life's morn.--William H. Lewis: Abraham Lincoln.--Alice M. Dunbar: David Livingstone.--Kelly Miller: Education for manhood.--Robert T. Jones: On making a life.--Ernest Lyon: Emancipation and racial advancement.--John C. Dancy: The future of the Negro church.--W. Ashbie Hawkins: The Negro lawyer.--W.E.B. Dubois: The training of Negroes for social reform.
Content: Contents: Prince Saunders: The people of Hayti and a plan of emigration.-- James McCune Smith: Touissaint L'Ouverture and the Haytian revolution.--Hilary Teague: Liberia.--Frederick Douglass: What to the slave is the Fourth of July; On the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument.--Charles H. Langston: Should colored men be subject to the pains and penalties of the Fugitive slave law?--Richard T. Greener: Young men to the front.--Robert Browne Elliot: The Civil rights bill.--John R. Lynch: Civil rights and social equality.-- Alexander Dumas, fils: On the occasion of taking his seat in the French Academy.--John M. Langston: Centennial anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.--Henry Highland Garnet: A memorial discourse.--George L. Ruffin: Crispus Attucks.--P.B.S. Pinchback: Address during presidential campaign of 1880.--Alexander Crummell: The black woman of the South.--Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: An open letter to the Educational League of Georgia.--James Madison Vance: In the wake of the coming ages.--Booker T. Washsington: At the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta: Robert Gould Shaw.
Content: Microfilm. 35 mm.
Citation/reference: *ZZ-8682
Physical Description
Microforms
Extent: 512 p. front. (port.) 23 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10234866
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a0fa3430-c548-012f-1d78-3c075448cc4b
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The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1875: Creator Born
  • 1914: Issued
  • 1935: Creator Died
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Masterpieces of Negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of slavery to the present time; edited by Alice Moore Dunbar." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1914. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/921be598-7895-b283-e040-e00a18062dd9

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Masterpieces of Negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of slavery to the present time; edited by Alice Moore Dunbar." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/921be598-7895-b283-e040-e00a18062dd9

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1914). Masterpieces of Negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of slavery to the present time; edited by Alice Moore Dunbar. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/921be598-7895-b283-e040-e00a18062dd9

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Masterpieces of Negro eloquence; the best speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of slavery to the present time; edited by Alice Moore Dunbar.