Date	Day	Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due
September 7	Tuesday	First day of class. Welcome and introductions. What is Rhetoric?  Rhetorical Activism?
September 9	Thursday	Course Information, Schedule of Assignments. Declaration of Independence. United States Constitution (be sure to read the Bill of Rights and the Amendments!). Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852. Photo/Bio [Note: Available online.  Go to American Rhetoric, then follow the link to their Online Speech Bank and then to the Douglass Speech, which is listed alphabetically under his first name, Frederick.]
September 14	Tuesday	Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852.
September 16	Thursday	Discussion of theory and texts continues from Tuesday.
September 21	Tuesday	McKay, Remonstrating Against the Right of Suffrage, 1870. Anthony, Address on the Charge of Illegal Voting, 1872. Photo/Bio Cleveland, "Would Woman Suffrage Be Unwise?", 1905. Photo/Bio
September 23	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
September 28	Tuesday	Terrell, "Progress of Colored Women," 1898. Photo/Bio Shaw, "Fundamental Principle of a Republic," 1915. Photo/Bio
September 30	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
October 5	Tuesday	Visit Africana.com. Do a search for, and read about, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panthers, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Kennedy, "To the American People on Civil Rights," 1963. Photo/Bio Wallace, " Segregation Forever," 1963. Photo/Bio
October 7	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
October 12	Tuesday	King, "I Have a Dream," 1963. Photo/Bio King, "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," 1963. Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet," 1964. Photo/Bio
October 14	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
October 19	Tuesday	No Class: Fall Break.
October 21	Thursday	SNCC, Black Power, 1966. Carmichael, Black Power, 1966. Photo/Bio Carmichael, Black Power, 1967. King, Black Power, 1967.
October 26	Tuesday	Discussion continues from Thursday.
October 28	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday. Mid-semester evaluation of the course.
November 2	Tuesday	Cleaver, "A Word to Students," 1968. Photo/Bio Davis, "Get it Together," 1971. Photo/Bio Black Panther Party Platform, 1966. Photo/Bio
November 4	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
November 9	Tuesday	First exam.
November 11	Thursday	Read the National Organization for Women's "Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment 1923-1996". Read the Eagle Forum's "A Short History of ERA". NOW, Statement of Purpose, 1966. National Council of Jewish Women, Statement in Opposition, 1970. National Council of Catholic Women, Statement in Opposition, 1970. ERA-America, Eagle Forum, and NOW Letters of Appeal, 1982.
November 16	Tuesday	Mainardi, "Politics of Housework," 1970. Syfers, "Why I Want a Wife," 1971. Friedan, "An Open Letter to True Men," 1974. Photo/Bio Falwell, "The Feminist Movement," 1980. Photo/Bio
November 18	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
November 23	Tuesday	Chisholm, "The 51% Minority," 1970. Photo/Bio Beale, "Double Jeopardy," 1970.
November 25	Thursday	No Class: Thanksgiving recess.
November 30	Tuesday	Newton, "A Letter from Huey . . .," 1970. Photo/Bio Shelley, "Gay is Good," 1970. Milk, "The Hope Speech," 1978. Photo/Bio Measure Nine, Oregon, 1992. Additional gay rights texts.
December 2	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
December 7	Tuesday	Lorde, "There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions," 1983. Photo/Bio Liebman, Letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1990. Buckley, Response, 1990. Michigan House Resolution #141. U.S. Senate Joint Resolution #40. Additional gay rights texts.
December 9	Thursday	Steinem, "Words and Change," 1979/1982/1995. Photo/Bio Wrap-up and class evaluation. Optional critical essay due at the start of class.
December 14	Tuesday	Second Exam.