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

I. What Next? 1920-1931

Jane Addams (1860-1935): Address at "Portrait Monument" Dedication (February 15, 1921)

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954): The Black Mammy Monument (1923)

Talk to Young Men of Howard University (March 20, 1925)

General Federation of Women's Clubs - Early 1920s, Various Convention Speeches

Mrs. John P. Gooding, Chairman Forestry Division: The Conservation Department's Forestry Program (June 22, 1920)

Adelaide Steele Baylor: Home Economics Education (June 22, 1920)

Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood: Developing Better Understanding and Friendship between the Pan-Americans (1924)

Mrs. W. R. Alvord: Report of Department of American Citizenship (1926)

Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966): Speech on the Outlawry of War Delivered at the Conference on Causes and Cure of War (January 18, 1925)

Ruth Muskrat Bronson (ca. 1897-1982): Excerpt from Miss Muskrat's Address on the North American Indian in The American Indian (February 1927)

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961): What the Negro Wants Politically (1928)

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa, Red Bird) (1876-1938): Speech before the Indian Rights Association (1928)

Elizabeth Manroe Sippel (ca. 1870-1940): Woman's Importance as an Investor of Money, Time and Leisure (January 17, 1929)

Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870-1967): Pond's Radio: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman (February 2, 1931)

II. Whose New Deal? 1932-1940

Ruth Morgan (ca. 1880-1934): Campaign Issues Challenging Political Parties, "Challenge of the Woman Voter" (April 26, 1932)

Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951): Speech to Milk Shed Conference (1933)

Blanche Ames Ames (1878-1969): Statement by the President of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts (January 1935)

Frances Perkins (1880-1965): Social Insurance for U.S. (February 25, 1935)

Anna Kelton Wiley (1877-1964): Philadelphia Branch of the National Woman's Party (September 9, 1935)

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962): What Libraries Mean to the Nation (April 1, 1936)

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966): Woman and the Future (January 25, 1937)

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955): Clarifying Our Vision with the Facts (October 31, 1937)

Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson (1890-1944): This Is My Task (March 12, 1939)

General Federation of Women's Clubs: Lucretia Mott Amendment (ERA) (1940)

Mrs. Helen Robbins Bitterman - For the Amendment

Mrs. Laura Hughes Lunde - Against the Amendment

Luisa Morena (1907-1992): Caravans of Sorrow (March 3, 1940)

III. Speaking of War! 1940-1945

Eleanor Roosevelt: To the Democratic National Convention, Chicago (July 18, 1940)

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961): The Great Democracy of the Free (October 24, 1940)

Hattie Caraway (1878-1950): The Lend-Lease Bill (February 27, 1941)

Dorothy Day (1897-1980): Address to the Liberal-Socialist Alliance in New York City (December 8, 1941)

Clare Booth Luce (1903-1987): The Role of American Women in Wartime (September 24, 1942)

Mary Anderson (1872-1964): Radio Speeches (February 22, 1942)

Mary Beard (1876-1946): Radio Broadcast to Nurses (July 1, 1942)

Ella Reeve Bloor: Women's Role in Winning the War (August 25 and 26, 1942)

Florence Jaffray Harriman

Woman and War (1941)

American-Soviet Friendship (December 9, 1944)

IV. Is That All There Is? 1945-1960

Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980): My Democratic Credo (March 29, 1946)

Mary Church Terrell: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on the Equal Rights Amendment (March 10, 1948)

Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961): Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism (Second Part) (April 7, 1948)

Margaret Chase Smith (1898-1995): Addresss to Business and Professional Women's Clubs (January 3, 1949)

Maida Springer-Kemp (1910-): Civil Rights and Liberties (March 4, 1949)

Dorothy Kenyon (1888-1972): Tydings Committee Testimony (March 14, 1950)

Margaret M. Henderson (1911-): Women Share Service for Freedom (February 16, 1952)

Justine Wise Polier (1903-1987): Freedom - Not Fear (February 1, 1954)

Katie Louchheim (1903-1991): Standard Stump Speech (September 20, 1954)

Dorothy Shaver (1889-1959): Address before the Philadelphia Fashion Group (February 7, 1955)

Fannia Cohn (1885-1962): Talk at the ILGWU Convention (May 14, 1956)

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964): Acceptance of AAUW Achievement Award (1956)

Martha May Eliot (1891-1978): The Community and Its Children (1958)

Pauli Murray (1910-1985): Being Good Neighbors - The Challenge of the Mid-Twentieth Century (February 12, 1959)

App. Speeches by American Women Published in Vital Speeches of the Day, October 8, 1934 - December 31, 1959.