The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

Andre E. Johnson is associate professor of rhetoric and media studies and scholar in residence at the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. He is author of No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Johnson has performed a great service with this important collection. The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner will introduce students and scholars alike to the depths of Turner's oratory and perspectives. By the end of this volume, one is left wondering why Turner is not much more well known for his lifetime spent thinking, speaking, and agitating amid the rise and fall of movements for racial justice and civil rights in the United States. It is, perhaps, a sign of how much work we have left in Black intellectual history.--Jim Casey "Journal of Southern History" In The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit, Andre E. Johnson recovers the voice of a politician, citizen, minister, and orator in American history whose contribution as a thought leader in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction period has been overlooked and eclipsed. Turner's voice is exceptionally relevant to our current racial landscape.--Cynthia P. King, professor of communication studies at Furman University