Scholarship: 1926-1960
Below is the published and non-published scholarship produced that focused primarily on African American rhetoric and public address during this period. If you have scholarship to contribute, please contact Andre E. Johnson at ajohnson@memphis.edu.
BOOKS:
Brown, Sterling A., Arthur P. Davis, Ulysses Lee. The Negro Caravan (Chapter 6). New York: Dryden Press, 1941.
Pipes, William H. Say Amen Brother!: Old-Time Negro Preaching. A Study in American Frustration. New York: The William Frederick Press, 1951.
Ransom, Reverdy C. The Spirit of Freedom and Justice: Oration and Speeches. Nashville, Tennessee, AME Sunday School Union, 1926
JOURNALS:
African Rhetoric
Gray, Giles Wilkeson. Precepts of Kagemni and Ptah-Hotep. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Dec46, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p446. 9p
Figures
Bardolph, Richard. The Distinguished Negro in America, 1770-1936. The American Historical Review, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Apr., 1955), pp. 527-547
Bradley, Bert. Negro Speakers in Congress: 1869-1875. The Southern Speech Journal. Volume: 18 Issue: 4, 1953, p. 216-225
Honan, William Holmes. John Jasper and the Sermon That Moved the Sun. Speech Monographs. Volume 23, Issue: 4, 1956, pp. 255-261.
Read, Allen Walker. The Speech of Negroes in Colonial America. Journal of Negro History, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1939), pp. 247-258
Ryon, Fred. William Allen: Negro Evangelist of the Society of Friends. Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, Volume 47, Number 2, Autumn 1958, pp. 94-105
Woolridge, Nancy Bullock. The Slave Preacher--Portrait of a Leader. The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1945), pp. 28-37
Pipes, William Harrison. Old‐Time Negro Preaching: An Interpretative Study. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Volume 31, 1945 - Issue 1
Rhetorical Education/Pedagogy
Boulware, Marcus H. Speech Training in Negro Colleges. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Dec 47, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p509. 6p.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Characteristics of Negro Expression.
Parker, John W. Current Debate Practices in Thirty Negro Colleges. The Journal of Negro Education. Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan., 1940), pp. 32-38
Parker, John W. The Status of Debate in the Negro College. The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1955), pp. 146-153
Porter, Dorothy B. The Organized Educational Activities of Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846. Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Oct., 1936), pp. 555-576
Voorhees, Lillian A. Program of Speech Education for Talladega College. Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 1946), pp. 109-116
Voorhees, Lillian A. Speech in the Negro College. Southern Speech Bulletin. Vol 6, No. 3, 1941. 51-56.
Social Movements
Aptheker, Herbert. The Negro in the Abolitionist Movement. Science & Society, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring, 1941), pp. 148-172
Bell, Howard H. National Negro Conventions of the Middle 1840's: Moral Suasion vs. Political Action. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1957), pp. 247-260
Bennett, Willifred. Survey of American Negro Oratory. Negro History Bulletin. Vol. 7 Issue 9, 1944.
Lash, John S. The Anthologist and the Negro Author. Phylon. Vol. 8, No. 1 (1st Qtr., 1947), pp. 68-76.
DISSERTATIONS/THESES
Bennett, Winfield DeWitt. A Survey of American Negro Oratory: From 1619-1933. MA Thesis, Columbian College, 1935
Crawford, Julma B. "The Writings of Benjamin Banneker: Their Effect Upon Concepts Regarding the Negro in America, 1750-1800." MA Thesis, Loyola University--Chicago, 1947
May, A. Florence. A Study of Speech Education in Four Year Negro Colleges and Universities in the United States. Ph.D. Diss. Northwestern University, 1951
Moseberry, Lowell Tillry. An Historical Study of Negro Oratory in the United States to 1915. Ph.D. Diss. University of Southern California, 1955.
Pipes, William Harrison, Sources of Booker T. Washington's Effectiveness as a Public Speaker. MA Thesis, Atlanta University, 1957.
Williams, Jayme Coleman. A Rhetorical Analysis of Thurgood Marshall's Arguments Before the Supreme Court in the Public School Controversy. Ph.D. Diss. The Ohio State University, 1959
REVIEWS:
Locke, Alain. The Spirit of Freedom and Justice: Orations and Speeches, by Reverdy C. Ransom. Journal of Negro History, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1927), pp. 99-101Pawley, Thomas D. Say Amen Brother by William H. Pipes. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Dec51, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p498. 3p.
Woolridge, Nancy. B. Say Amen Brother! by William H. Pipes. Phylon, Vol. 12, No. 4 (4th Qtr., 1951), pp. 396-397
Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize
Among pivotal historical moments in the United States, the civil rights movement stands out. In Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Living Legacy of African American Prophecy, David G. Holmes offers an original rhetorical analysis of six speeches delivered during the 1963 civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. Holmes frames his analysis within the biblical concept of prophecy. However, he stresses the idea of prophecy as sociopolitical forth-telling, rather than mystical foretelling. Based on his own transcriptions from rare recordings, Holmes examines how these orations, which clergy and laypeople delivered, address enduring themes such as the role of religion and politics, black leadership and black activism, and the political and popular legacies of the civil rights movement. Drawing upon American history, politics, hermeneutics, homiletics, and rhetoric, Holmes's discussion ranges from civil rights prophets to contemporary politicians, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama. Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize illustrates how the Birmingham mass meeting oratory of 1963 represented a quality of democratic discourse desperately needed today.
#AAPA2019: African American Public Address Pre-Conference at NCA
The National Communication Association will sponsor a day-long pre-conference titled "Yet with a Steady Beat": Creating and Sustaining the African American Public Address Tradition on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, at its national conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Chaired and organized by Andre E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at the University of Memphis, the conference will consist of panel presentations and a roundtable discussion centered on the recent conversation around diversity versus merit.
**All of the pre-registered seating is gone! However, we are collecting a waiting list. If you are still interested in attending, please sign up here to be placed on the waiting list.
**All of the pre-registered seating is gone! However, we are collecting a waiting list. If you are still interested in attending, please sign up here to be placed on the waiting list.
Sponsor: Preconferences
Wed, 11/13/19: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Baltimore Convention Center
Room: 344 (300 Level)
Baltimore Convention Center
Room: 344 (300 Level)
Official Social Media Hashtag:
#AAPA2019
Below is the schedule:
8am-8:30am: Gathering, Introduction to the pre-conference:
8:30am-9:45am-Panel 1: Politics and Protest in African American Public Address
Chair: Natonya Listach, University of Memphis
David A. Frank, University of Oregon
Damariyé L. Smith, University of Memphis
Erica Cooper, East Carolina University
Andrew Boge, University of Iowa
Respondent: Richard Leeman, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9:45am-10:00am-Break
10:00am-11:15am: Panel 2: Religious Rhetoric and Oratory
Chair: Melissa Renee Harris, Howard University
Earle Fisher, Memphis Theological Seminary
Nicole McDonald, Christian Theological Seminary
Scott Varda, Baylor University
Matt Farmer, University of Georgia
Respondent: David G. Holmes, Pepperdine University
11:15am-11:30am-Break
11:30am-12:45pm- Roundtable: Diversity vs Merit: A Response to the DS Controversy
Jack Daniel, Co-founder of the Black Caucus of the National Communication Association
Dorthy Pennington, University of Kansas
Richard Besel, Grand Valley State University
Kimberly Moffitt, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Carlos Morrison, Alabama State University
Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus
Roslyn Satchel, Pepperdine University
Moderator: Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
12:45pm-1:00pm-Break
1:00pm-2:15pm: Panel 3: Womanist Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Chair: Ayo Morton, University of Memphis
Kimberly P. Johnson, Tennessee State University
Tiffany J. Bell, Valparaiso University
Dianna Watkins-Dickerson, University of Memphis
A. Madlock-Gatison, Independent Scholar
Respondent: Toniesha L. Taylor, Texas Southern University
2:15-2:30pm-Break
2:30pm-3:45pm: Panel 4: Future Directions
Chair: Lionnell "Badu" Smith, University of Memphis
Kelly Jakes, College of Charleston
Carolin Aronis, University of Colorado Boulder & Natasha Shrikant, University of Colorado Boulder
Kristine Warrenburg Rome, Flagler College
Nicholas Prephan, Wayne State University & Arthi Chandrasekaran, Wayne State University
Respondent: Robert Terrill, Indiana University
3:45-4:00pm: Concluding Remarks
4:00pm-5:15: Roundtable: In the Beginning Was the Word: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric Race and Religion. Hosted by the Religious Communication Association.
Location: Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel. 300 South Charles Street, Baltimore, MD.
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
Dianna Watkins-Dickerson, University of Memphis
Kimberly P. Johnson, Tennessee State University
Christopher House, Ithaca College
R. Janae Pitts-Murdock, Christian Theological Seminary
Earle Fisher, Memphis Theological Seminary
Michelle E. Shaw, Northwestern University
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University
Kyle Brooks, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
C.L. Dangerfield, University of Memphis
7:00pm-8:30pm: Pulpit Oratory: Jesus and the Black Prophetic Tradition
Hosted by New Saint Mark Baptist Church, 3905 Springdale Avenue Baltimore, Maryland
Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. Bowyer G. Freeman
Guest Speaker: Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
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