Can I get a witness? : prophetic religious voices of African American women : an anthology / [print]
edited by Marcia Y. Riggs ; with biographical sketches and selected bibliography by Barbara Holmes.
- Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, (c)1997.
- xv, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Not by the commission of men's hands My call to preach the gospel ; The subject of my call to preach renewed Conversion and call ; Call to ministry ; On racial prejudice ; Proclaiming the gospel in the slave states 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 Proud of that "ole time religion" / Sister Kelly -- Call to service ; A period of stern opposition ; Sanctification ; Texts of special significance in Virginia's twenty years' experience An address delivered before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of America (1832) / Maria W. Stewart -- My call to preach ; Heavenly visitations again ; Public effort, excommunication ; Women in the gospel Our greatest want The requisites of true leadership : by Miss Ida B. Wells, editor of Free Speech, Memphis, Tennessee The duty of the National Association of Colored Women Elizabeth -- Jarena Lee -- Zilpha Elaw -- Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree] -- Harriet's religious character ; One of two things ; On reaching free soil Harriet Ross Tubman -- Virginia W. Broughton -- Julia A.J. Foote -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Mary Eliza Church Terrell -- What role is the educated Negro woman to play in the uplifting of her race? / Sarah Dudley Pettey -- My last will and testament Not color but character ; The colored woman and her relation to the domestic problem The Christian teacher : the hope of Negro America Singing the Lord's song No greater legacy On the South's idea of justice The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the colored woman The awakening of women ; The club movement among colored women of America The ethics of the Negro question Lynching : our national crime Negro womanhood defended Excerpt from Echo in my soul Roots ; The NAACP years ; Somebody carries on Sick and tired of being sick and tired The relationship between religion and today's social issues Mary McLeod Bethune -- Nannie Helen Burroughs -- Charlotte Hawkins Brown -- Yvonne V. Delk -- Marsha Woodard -- An anonymous black woman -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Fannie Barrier Williams -- Anna Julia Haywood Cooper -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Addie Waites Hunton -- Septima Poinsette Clark -- Ella Josephine Baker -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Shirley Chisholm.
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African American women--Religious life. Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.