What if I am a Woman?, Vol. 1: Black Women's Speeches
This collection of speeches written by influential 19th century African-American women’s rights activists presents views of equality, tolerance, action, and strength propagated by some of the people in American history who struggled the hardest to fight the prejudices and injustices of their time, and who refused any limitations that kept them from achieving respect and greatness. Among those represented here are abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who condemns the act of lynching and asks people to recognize the graveness of such racial cleansing. All speeches are recited by actress Ruby Dee. Liner notes with the original speakers’ backgrounds and transcriptions included. (See also FW05537 What If I Am A Woman? Vol. 2)
Track Listing
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Maria W. Stewart, What if I Am a Woman | Ruby Dee | 8:33 | |
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102
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Sojourner Truth, Women's Rights 1851 | Ruby Dee | 3:29 | |
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Sarah Parker Remond, Why Slavery Is Still Rampant | Ruby Dee | 11:18 | |
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Sojourner Truth, When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will be Right, 1867 | Ruby Dee | 6:17 | |
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201
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Mary Church Terrel, The Progress of Colored Women | Ruby Dee | 13:50 | |
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Mary Church Terrel, Frederick Douglass, 1908 | Ruby Dee | 19:01 |
Album Info
Folkways Suggests
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Songs My Mother Taught MeFannie Lou Hamer
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Socialism and the American NegroW.E.B. DuBois
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From the ArchivesCivil War Songs and Sounds -
From the ArchivesPeace Songs of the 1960s -
From the ArchivesSounds of the Civil Rights Movement -
From the ArchivesWill to Adorn from Smithsonian Folkways -
From the ArchivesSounds of the Cold War from Smithsonian Folkways
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From the ArchivesWoodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie -
From the ArchivesMike Seeger: American Folk Revivalist and Historian -
From the ArchivesSay It Loud: African American Spoken Word -
From the ArchivesPeace Songs of the 1960s | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine -
From the ArchivesParedon Records: Activist songs and speeches from 1970 to 1985