Discusses the nature of rhetorical personae by examining Marcus Garvey as a Moses for Harlem Blacks awaiting a deliverer. Treats the Black Moses persona as the transcendent form and the factors of deliverance in Garvey's speeches--election, captivity, liberation--as the particulars that allow Garvey to participate in the form. (PD)

Discusses Malcolm X's rhetoric use of animal imagery to modify Blacks' image of White America. In general, his rhetoric reflected societal conflict through word choice, sentence structure, and delivery style. The usefulness of his rhetoric in addressing other images that are in need of change is discussed. (BJV)

An Historical Analysis of black speeches which indicates the failure of rhetorical appeals to values to effectively persuade an audience. (DD)

Based upon research conducted during the past decade that identifies speech features of form, topic, content, and use of language as male- or female-associated, this paper examines the rhetoric of Sojourner Truth in reference to these features. It classifies her directness, originality, and action as male-associated and her modesty, emotionalism,…

In their new roles as congressmen after the Civil War, blacks, for the first time in American history, advanced views of civil rights that reflected black perspectives. One scheme for analyzing black rhetoric suggests that black congressmen did not share the perspective held by many whites--that blacks were inept individuals. Rather, the black…