The World's Orator

Joseph Charles Price was president of Livingstone College, one for the first private liberal arts colleges founded, owned, operated, managed, controlled, and staffed by African Americans in the United States. This is the first and only comprehensive collection of the writings and speeches on Joseph Charles Price.

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Joseph Charles Price was an African American leader between the 1880s and the early 1890s. He was, however, more than a race leader. Price was president of two Civil Rights Organizations, the National Protective Association, and the AfroAmerican League; minister, outstanding lecturer, internationally acclaimed orator, woman's rights advocate, Pan-Africanist, chairman of the Citizen's Equal Rights Association of Washington, D.C., scholar, and visionary. He was Grand Orator of the Prince Hall Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina and he was one of the founders and president of the North Carolina Teachers Association. He was founder of The Southland, the first African American magazine in the South. Price was also Commissioner - in- Chief of the Colored Exhibit for the Southern Inter-States Immigration Association. This is the first and only comprehensive collection of the writings and speeches on Joseph Charles Price.