The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (eBook)

The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit

Andre E. Johnson (Herausgeber)

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2023 | PDF Single
212 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-4389-0 (ISBN)

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An essential reader of the powerful orations of an African American religious leader

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Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of America’s earliest Black activists and social reformers, and an outspoken proponent of emigration. In The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit, Andre E. Johnson has compiled selected political speeches, sermons, lectures, and religious addresses delivered by Turner in their original form.

Alongside Turner’s oratory, Johnson places the speeches in their historical context and traces his influence on Black social movements in the twentieth century, from W. E. B. Du Bois’s idea of cultural nationalism to Marcus Garvey’s "Back to Africa" movement, the modern-day civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, James Cone’s Black liberation theology, and more. While Turner was widely known as a great orator and published copious articles, essays, and editorials, no single collection of only Turner’s speeches has yet been published, and scholars have largely ignored his legacy. This volume recovers a lost voice within American and African American rhetorical history, expanding the canon of the African American oratorical tradition.

Autor

Andre E. Johnson is associate professor of rhetoric and media studies and scholar in residence at the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. He is author of No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and editor of The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 19th century • African American • African American Studes • African Methodist Episcopal Church • Back to Africa • Black activist • Black Church • Black Studies • Civil Rights • Civil Rights Movement • Civil War • Colored Conventions • Cultural Nationalism • Elections • Emigration • Henry McNeal Turner • History • James Cone • Marcus Garvey • oratory • Political Speeches • Politics • reconstruction • Religion • religious addresses • Religious Studies • rhetoric • rhetorical history • social reformer • speeches • Supreme Court
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-4389-4 / 1496843894
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-4389-0 / 9781496843890