Can I get a witness? : prophetic religious voices of African American women : an anthology /
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| Imprint: | Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1997. |
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| Description: | xv, 200 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5585128 |
Table of Contents:
- "Not by the Commission of Men's Hands" / Elizabeth (1766-1867)
- "My Call to Preach the Gospel"
- "The Subject of My Call to Preach Renewed" / Jarena Lee (1783-?)
- "Conversion and Call"
- "Call to Ministry"
- "On Racial Prejudice"
- "Proclaiming the Gospel in the Slave States" / Zilpha Elaw (c. 1790)
- "The Lord Has Made Me a Sign"
- "Arn't I a Woman?"
- "Ain't I a Woman?"
- "I Suppose I Am About the Only Colored Woman That Goes About to Speak for the Rights of Colored Women" / Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree] (1797-1883)
- "Harriet's Religious Character"
- "One of Two Things"
- "On Reaching Free Soil" / Harriet Ross Tubman (c. 1821-1913)
- "Proud of That 'Ole Time Religion'" / Sister Kelly (c. 1830)
- "Call to Service"
- "A Period of Stern Opposition"
- "Sanctification"
- "Texts of Special Significance in Virginia's Twenty Years' Experience" / Virginia W. Broughton (c. 1850)
- An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of America (1832) / Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)
- "My Call to Preach"
- "Heavenly Visitations Again"
- "Public Effort-Excommunication"
- "Women in the Gospel" / Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900)
- "Our Greatest Want" / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
- "The Requisites of True Leadership" / Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
- "The Duty of the National Association of Colored Women" / Mary Eliza Church Terrell (1863-1954)
- "What Role is the Educated Negro Woman to Play in the Uplifting of Her Race?" / Sarah Dudley Pettey (c. 1870s)
- "My Last Will and Testament" / Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
- "Not Color But Character"
- "The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem" / Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961)
- "The Christian Teacher: The Hope of Negro America" / Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961)
- "Singing the Lord's Song" / Yvonne V. Delk
- "No Greater Legacy" / Marsha Woodard
- "On the South's Idea of Justice" / An Anonymous Black Woman (c. 1870s)
- "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Colored Woman" / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
- "The Awakening of Women"
- "The Club Movement Among Colored Women of America" / Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)
- "The Ethics of the Negro Question" / Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964)
- "Lynching, Our National Crime" / Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
- "Negro Womanhood Defended" / Addie Waites Hunton (1866-1943)
- Excerpt from Echo in My Soul / Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987)
- "Roots"
- "The NAACP Years"
- "Somebody Carries On / Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986)
- "Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired" / Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
- "The Relationship Between Religion and Today's Social Issues"
- Afterword: "Will the Circle of Witnesses Be Unbroken?"
