Can I get a witness? : prophetic religious voices of African American women : an anthology / edited by Marcia Y. Riggs ; with biographical sketches and selected bibliography by Barbara Holmes. [print]

Includes bibliographical references.

Not by the commission of men's hands Elizabeth -- My call to preach the gospel ; The subject of my call to preach renewed Jarena Lee -- Conversion and call ; Call to ministry ; On racial prejudice ; Proclaiming the gospel in the slave states Zilpha Elaw -- 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] -- Harriet's religious character ; One of two things ; On reaching free soil Harriet Ross Tubman -- 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 Virginia W. Broughton -- 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 Julia A.J. Foote -- Our greatest want Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The requisites of true leadership : by Miss Ida B. Wells, editor of Free Speech, Memphis, Tennessee Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- The duty of the National Association of Colored Women 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 Mary McLeod Bethune -- Not color but character ; The colored woman and her relation to the domestic problem Nannie Helen Burroughs -- The Christian teacher : the hope of Negro America Charlotte Hawkins Brown -- Singing the Lord's song Yvonne V. Delk -- No greater legacy Marsha Woodard -- On the South's idea of justice An anonymous black woman -- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the colored woman Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The awakening of women ; The club movement among colored women of America Fannie Barrier Williams -- The ethics of the Negro question Anna Julia Haywood Cooper -- Lynching : our national crime Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Negro womanhood defended Addie Waites Hunton -- Excerpt from Echo in my soul Septima Poinsette Clark -- Roots ; The NAACP years ; Somebody carries on Ella Josephine Baker -- Sick and tired of being sick and tired Fannie Lou Hamer -- The relationship between religion and today's social issues Shirley Chisholm.

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