This collection of speeches by prominent African-American leaders focuses on issues defining the black experience in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 51 selections focus on slavery, emigration to Africa, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation. Speeches include Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" address, W. E. B. Du Bois' discourse on training of Negroes for social reform, Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of…
Author: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson · Original publisher: The Bookery Publishing Company (1914)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1914; full text freely available at Project Gutenberg. The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `8764-masterpieces-of-negro-eloquence.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
