xxviii, 433 p. ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-408) and index

Fighting for freedom again: African American reform rhetoric in the late nineteenth century / Richard W. Leeman -- "The clear, plain facts": the antilynching agitation of Ida B. Wells / Shirley Wilson Logan and Martha S. Watson -- Finding the angel's lily: redefining American character in the rhetoric of Russell H. Conwell / A. Cheree Carlson -- Confronting evil: Kansas as a case study of nineteenth-century populist rhetoric / Thomas R. Burkholder -- William Jennings Bryan: a modern disciple with a political mission / Sally Perkins -- "Making the world more homelike": the reform rhetoric of Frances E. Willard / Amy R. Slagell -- Lifting as we climb: race, gender, and class in the rhetoric of Mary Church Terrell / Martha S. Watson -- Radical labor in a feminine voice: the rhetoric of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn / Mari Boor Tonn -- Terence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor: a leader under siege / Charles J. Stewart -- Fair rhetoric / James Gilbert -- Anarchist women and the feminine ideal: sex, class, and style in the rhetoric of Voltairine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman, and Lucy Parsons / Linda Diane Horwitz, Donna Marie Kowal, and Catherine Helen Palczewski -- Passing the torch of women's rights: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Howard Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt / Susan Schultz Huxman

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