Date	Day	Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due
September 7	Wednesday	First day of class. Welcome and introductions. What is Rhetoric?  Rhetorical Theory?  Rhetorical Activism?
September 12	Monday	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	Wednesday	Discussion of theory and texts continues from Monday.
September 19	Monday	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 21	Wednesday	Discussion of theory and texts continues from Monday.
September 26	Monday	Terrell, "Progress of Colored Women," 1898. Photo/Bio Shaw, "Fundamental Principle of a Republic," 1915. Photo/Bio
September 28	Wednesday	Discussion continues from Monday.
October 3	Monday	Check our course website for information about the black freedom movement. Kennedy, "To the American People on Civil Rights," 1963. Photo/Bio Wallace, "Segregation Forever," 1963. Photo/Bio
October 5	Wednesday	Discussion continues from Monday. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
October 10	Monday	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 12	Wednesday	Discussion continues from Monday.
October 17	Monday	No Class: Fall Break.
October 19	Wednesday	SNCC, Black Power, 1966. Carmichael, Black Power, 1966. Photo/Bio Carmichael, Black Power, 1967. King, Black Power, 1967.
October 24	Monday	Discussion continues from Wednesday.
October 26	Wednesday	Discussion continues from Monday. Mid-semester evaluation of the course.
October 31	Monday	Cleaver, "A Word to Students," 1968. Photo/Bio Davis, "Get it Together," 1971. Photo/Bio Black Panther Party Platform, 1966. Photo/Bio
November 2	Wednesday	Discussion continues from Monday.
November 7	Monday	First exam.
November 9	Wednesday	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 14	Monday	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 16	Wednesday	Discussion continues from Monday.
November 21	Monday	Chisholm, "The 51% Minority," 1970. Photo/Bio Beale, "Double Jeopardy," 1970.
November 23	Wednesday	No class: Thanksgiving break.
November 28	Monday	Newton, "A Letter from Huey . . .," 1970. Photo/Bio Shelley, "Gay is Good," 1970. Milk, "The Hope Speech," 1978. Photo/Bio Measure Nine, Oregon, 1992.
November 30	Wednesday	Discussion continues from Monday.
December 5	Monday	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 required gay rights texts.
December 7	Wednesday	Steinem, "Words and Change," 1979/1982/1995. Photo/Bio Wrap-up and class evaluation. Optional critical essay due at the start of class.
December 12	Monday	Second exam.