by RoyLisa | Aug 12, 2017 | African American History, Speeches
On May 20, 1893, women’s activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper gave this speech before the World’s Congress of Representative Women, meeting in their conference in Chicago, Illinois. If before sin had cast its deepest shadows or sorrow had distilled its bitterest...
by RoyLisa | Apr 9, 2012 | African American History, Speeches
After his 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech, Booker T. Washington’s popularity grew rapidly among Northern whites. In this instance he gives an address at Madison Square Garden in New York City on February 12, 1898, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Not...
by RoyLisa | Apr 8, 2012 | African American History, Speeches
Hugh M. Browne, educator, Presbyterian minister, and college professor in Liberia, positioned himself between the advocates of industrial and higher education for African Americans. In the speech below given in Washington, D.C., he describes his educational...
by RoyLisa | Mar 15, 2012 | African American History, Speeches
Image Ownership: Public Domain One year after his Atlanta Compromise Speech 40-year-old Booker T. Washington was on his way to becoming the most influential African American in the United States. One example of that growing influence was the invitation from the...
by RoyLisa | Nov 21, 2011 | African American History, Speeches
Mary Church Terrell, the daughter of former slaves, became by the beginning of the 20th century one of the most articulate spokespersons for women’s rights including full suffrage. In 1896 she was elected president of the National Association of Colored Women...
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