Chapter 9- Voice of the People Flashcards
are among the most important of all folk literature and certainly America’s unique contribution to the folk music of the world
Negro spirituals
wrote Oh! Susanna
Stephen Foster
wrote My Old Kentucky Home
Stephen Foster
america’s most beloved popular song composer
Foster
the outstanding hymn writer to emerge from the age
Fanny Crosby
wrote Close to Thee
Fanny Crosby
wrote More Like Jesus Would I Be
Fanny Crosby
wrote Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln
the goal of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
encourage to heal and bind up wounds
wrote the Secret of Progress
Booker T. Washington
what is the secret of progress for black AMericans according to Booker?
no race that has anything to CONTRIBUTE to the market of the world is long in any degree ostracized
wrote Is the Bible True?
William Jenning Bryan
wrote A Father’s Prayer
Douglas MacArthur
who was A Father’s Prayer written for?
Douglas MacArthur’s son
wrote The Nobel Prize Speech
William Faulkner
