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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Riggs, Marcia
Language:English
Published: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1997.
Subjects:
African American women > Religious life.
Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Physical Description:xv, 200 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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, Tenn. / 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.