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Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
I: What Next? 1920-1931 1
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Address at "Portrait Monument" Dedication (February 15, 1921) 5
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
The Black Mammy Monument (1923) 11
Talk to Young Men of Howard University (March 20, 1925) 15
General Federation of Women's Clubs-Early 1920s, Various
Convention Speeches 19
Mrs. John P. Gooding, Chairman Forestry Division
The Conservation Department's Forestry Program
(June 22, 1920) 21
Adelaide Steele Baylor
Home Economics Education (June 22, 1920) 22
Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood
Developing Better Understanding and Friendship between
the Pan-Americans (1924) 23
Mrs. W. R. Alvord
Report of Department of American Citizenship (1926) 24
Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966)
Speech on the Outlawry of War Delivered at the Conference
on Causes and Cure of War (January 18, 1925) 29
Ruth Muskrat Bronson (ca. 1897-1982)
Excerpt from Miss Muskrat's Address on the North American
Indian in The American Indian (February 1927) 39
Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961)
What the Negro Wants Politically (1928) 43
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa, Red Bird) (1876-1938)
Speech before the Indian Rights Association (1928) 51
Elizabeth Manroe Sippel (ca. 1870-1940)
Woman's Importance as an Investor of Money, Time and
Leisure (January 17,1929) 63
Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870-1967)
Pond's Radio: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman (February 2, 1931) 69
Suggested Readings, 1920-1932 73
II: Whose New Deal? 1932-1940 75
Ruth Morgan (ca. 1880-1934)
Campaign Issues Challenging Political Parties, "Challenge
of the Woman Voter" (April 26, 1932) 79
Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951)
Speech to Milk Shed Conference (1933) 85
Blanche Ames Ames (1878-1969)
Statement by the President of the Birth Control League of
Massachusetts (January 1935) 89
Frances Perkins (1880-1965)
Social Insurance for U.S. (February 25, 1935) 93
Anna Kelton Wiley (1877-1964)
Philadelphia Branch of the National Woman's Party
(September 9, 1935) 103
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
What Libraries Mean to the Nation (April 1, 1936) 113
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
Woman and the Future (January 25, 1937) 119
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Clarifying Our Vision with the Facts (October 31, 1937) 125
Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson (1890-1944)
This Is My Task (March 12, 1939) 133
General Federation of Women's Clubs: Lucretia Mott
Amendment (ERA) (1940) 143
Mrs. Helen Robbins Bitterman-For the Amendment 145
Mrs. Laura Hughes Lunde-Against the Amendment 151
Luisa Moreno (1907-1992)
Caravans of Sorrow (March 3, 1940) 155
Suggested Readings, 1932-1940 161
III: Speaking of War! 1940-1945 163
Eleanor Roosevelt
To the Democratic National Convention, Chicago (July 18, 1940) 167
Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961)
The Great Democracy of the Free (October 24, 1940) 171
Hattie Caraway (1878-1950)
The Lend-Lease Bill (February 27, 1941) 181
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Address to the Liberal-Socialist Alliance in New York City
(December 8, 1941) 189
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
The Role of American Women in Wartime
(September 24, 1942) 195
Mary Anderson (1872-1964)
Radio Speeches (February 22, 1942) 203
Mary Beard (1876-1946)
Radio Broadcast to Nurses (July 1, 1942) 209
Ella Reeve Bloor
Women's Role in Winning the War (August 25 and 26, 1942) 213
Florence faffray Harriman 217
Woman and War (1941) 218
American-Soviet Friendship (December 9, 1944) 219
Suggested Readings, 1940-1945 221
IV: Is That All There Is? 1945-1960 223
Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980)
My Democratic Credo (March 29, 1946) 227
Mary Church Terrell
Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on the
Equal Rights Amendment (March 10, 1948) 239
Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961)
Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism (Second Part)
(April 7, 1948) 241
Margaret Chase Smith (1898-1995)
Address to Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Ganuary 3, 1949) 251
Maida Springer-Kemp (1910-)
Civil Rights and Liberties (March 4, 1949) 259
Dorothy Kenyon (1888-1972)
Tydings Committee Testimony (March 14, 1950) 267
Margaret M. Henderson (1911-)
Women Share Service for Freedom (February 16, 1952) 275
Justine Wise Polier (1903-1987)
Freedom-Not Fear (February 1, 1954) 281
Katie Louchheim (1903-1991)
Standard Stump Speech (September 20, 1954) 289
Dorothy Shaver (1889-1959)
Address before the Philadelphia Fashion Group
(February 7, 1955) 297
Fannia Cohn (1885-1962)
Talk at the ILGWU Convention (May 14, 1956) 303
Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)
Acceptance of AAUW Achievement Award (1956) 307
Martha May Eliot (1891-1978)
The Community and Its Children (1958) 313
Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
Being Good Neighbors-The Challenge of the Mid-Twentieth
Century (February 12,1959) 321
Suggested Readings, 1945-1960 333
Epilogue 335
Appendix: Speeches by American Women Published in Vital
Speeches of the Day, October 8, 1934-December 31, 1959 337
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Speeches, addresses, etc, , American Women authors, Women United States History Sources