From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race." This reader from 1920 is a collection of writings by an impressive line-up of African-American writers, activists, and educators. "It is the hope that this little book will find a large welcome in all sections of the country and will bring good cheer and encouragement to the young readers who have so largely the fortunes of their race in their own hands." - Summary by kathrinee and the editors.
Chapters
1 Forword and Introduction 8 min 2 The Boy and the Bayonet 17 min 3 The Beginnings of a Mississippi School 3 min 4 Up From Slavery: The Struggle for an Education 8 min 5 Booker T. Washington: A Student's Memory of him 4 min 6 Anna-Margaret 8 min 7 Charity 1 min 8 My First School 14 min 9 Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes 4 min 10 The Land of Laughter 9 min 11 The Web of Circumstance 1 min 12 Is the Game Worth the Candle? 10 min 13 O Black and Unknown Bards 3 min 14 The Greatest Menace of the South 10 min 15 The Enchanted Shell 3 min 16 Behind a Georgia Mule 9 min 17 Hayti and Toussant L'Ouverture 9 min 18 His Motto 10 min 19 The Months 4 min 20 The Colored Cadet at West Point 8 min 21 An Hymn to the Evening 2 min 22 Going to School under Difficulties 8 min 23 The Brave Son 1 min 24 Victory 13 min 25 The Dog and the Clever Rabbit 4 min 26 The Boy and the Ideal 4 min 27 Children at Easter 2 min 28 Abraham Lincoln 5 min 29 Rondeau 1 min 30 How I Escaped 12 min 31 Frederick Douglass 10 min 32 Incident in the Life of Frederick Douglass 2 min 33 Animal Life in the Congo 12 min 34 Co-operation and the Latin Class 8 min 35 The Band of Gideon 2 min 36 The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful 5 min 37 The Knighting of Donald 9 min 38 A Negro Explorer at the North Pole 13 min 39 Benjamin Banneker 5 min 40 The Negro Race 1 min 41 Paul Cuffe 11 min 42 The Black Fairy 9 min 43 It's a Long Way 1 min 44 Negro Music that Stirred France 9 min 45 November 11, 1918 3 min 46 Sea Lyric 1 min 47 A Negro Woman's Hospitality 4 min 48 Record of "The Old Fifteenth" in France 3 min 49 Negro Soldiers 2 min 50 The "Devil Bush" and the "Greegree Bush" 6 min 51 Evening Prayer 1 min 52 The Strenuous Life 4 min 53 O Little David, Play on your Harp 1 min 54 A Day at Kalk Bay, South Africa 4 min 55 Bishop Atticus G. Haygood 3 min 56 How Two Colored Captains Fell 2 min 57 The Young Warrior 1 min 58 Whole Regiments Decorated 1 min 59 On Planting Artichokes: From the Life of Scott Bond 7 min 60 A Song of Thanks 3 min 61 Our Dumb Animals 3 min 62 A Legend of the Blue Jay 4 min 63 David Livingstone 6 min 64 Ira Aldridge 7 min 65 Fifty Years: 1863-1913 6 min 66 A Great Kingdom in the Congo 25 min 67 Pillars of the State 1 min 68 Oath of Afro-American Youth 2 min
