From megaphones to microphones: speeches of American women, 1920-1960

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Introduction Next? 1920-1931 Jane Addams Address at 'Portrait Monument' Dedication Mary Church Terrell The Black Mammy Monument Mary Church Terrell Talk to Young Men of Howard University March 20, 1925 Mrs. John P. Gooding The Conservation Department's Forestry Program Adelaide Steele Baylor Home Economics Education Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood Developing Better Understanding and between the Pan-Americans Mrs. W. R. Alvord Report of the Department of Citizenship (1926) Florence Ellinwood Allen Talk on the Outlawry of War Ruth Muskrat Bronson Address on the North Nannie Helen Burroughs What the Negro Wants Politically Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa, Red Bird) Before the Indian Rights Association Elizabeth Manroe Sippel Importance as an Investor (radio) Florence Jaffray Harriman Ponds Radio Whose New Deal? 1932-1941 Ruth Morgan Campaign Issues Challenging Political Parties, 'Challenge of the Voter' Ella Reeve Bloor to Milk Shed Conference Blanche Ames Ames Birth Control Francis Perkins Social Security Act Anna Kelton Wiley Branch of the National Woman's Party Eleanor Roosevelt What Libraries Mean to the Nation Margaret Sanger Woman and the Future Mary McLeod Bethune Clarifying our Vision With the Facts. Aimee Semple McPherson This Is Task (radio Sermon) General Federation of Clubs--Debate on ERA Luisa Moreno Caravans of Sorrow Speaking of War! 1940-1945 Eleanor Roosevelt to the Democratic Convention Dorothy Thompson The Great Democracy of the Free Hattie Caraway The Lend-Lease Bill (radio) Dorothy Day Address to the Liberal-Socialist Alliance in New York City Clare Boothe Luce to the Bridgeport of the Institute of Banking Mary Anderson in Industry (two radio speeches) Ella Reeve Bloor Women's Role in Winning the War (radio) Mary Beard to Nurses (radio) Florence Jaffray Harriman and War (1941) Florence Jaffray Harriman American Soviet Friendship Is That All There Is? 1945-1960 Helen Gahagan Douglas My Democratic Credo Mary Church Terrell Testimony Before the House Judiciary on the Equal Rights Amendment Emily Greene Balch Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism (second part) Margaret Chase Smith Address to Business and Professional Maida Kemp Talk by Maida Springer Dorothy Kenyon before Tydings Committee Margaret M. Henderson Share Service for Justine Wise Polier Freedom Not Fear Katie Loucheim Standard Stump Speech Dorothy Shaver Address before the Philadelphia Fashion Group Fannia Cohn Talk at the ILGWU Convention Rachel Carson Acceptance of AAUW Achievement Award Martha Eliot The Community and Its Children Pauli Murray Being Good Neighbors Epilogue Appendix: Speeches Delivered by Women Published in Vital Speeches of the Day, 1934-1960