Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson's book is seen to have peculiar significance to the colored race in America. Hers is the first attempt I have known of directly on the part of any Negro to frame a speaker composed entirely of literature produced by black men and women, and about black men and women, and embodying the finest spiritual ideals of the Negro race." And in addition, Alice Dunbar-Nelson includes some very meaningful support from some Caucasian writers. (Summary by Jim Locke)
Chapters
1 Forward and Introduction 8 min 2 "The Birdlet," Alexander Poushkin 1 min 3 "The Sparrow's Fall," Frances E. W. Harper 2 min 4 "The Seedling," Paul Laurence Dunbar 2 min 5 "While April Breezes Blow," D.T. Williamson 3 min 6 "Thanksgiving," William Stanley Braithwaite 1 min 7 "The Cucuya or Firefly," a Cuban slave 4 min 8 "The Clock that Gains," the Cuban slave 1 min 9 "A June Song," Charlotte Forten Grimke 3 min 10 "A City Garden," William Stanley Braithwaite 1 min 11 "De 'Lil Black Sheep," Ballarat (Australia) Chronicle 2 min 12 "In the Morning," Paul Laurence Dunbar 3 min 13 "Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine," Paul Laurence Dunbar 4 min 14 "The Case of Ca'line," Paul Laurence Dunbar 8 min 15 "Sambo's Right to Be Kilt," Private Miles O'Reilly 2 min 16 "An Easter Symbol," Ruth McEnery Stuart 4 min 17 "The Funal of Bruh Tony Smiff," John Riley Dungee 8 min 18 "Tunk," James Weldon Johnnson 3 min 19 "Uncle Ike's Roosters," Anonymous 4 min 20 "W'en Dey 'Listed the Colored Soldiers," Paul Lawrence Dunbar 4 min 21 "The Praline Woman," Alice Ruth Moore 5 min 22 "Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance," Payne Erskine 20 min 23 "The Four Travelers," Will Carlton 3 min 24 "The Band of Gideon," Joseph Cotter, Jr 2 min 25 "The White Witch," James Weldon Johnson 3 min 26 "The Unsung Heroes," Paul Laurence Dunbar 3 min 27 "Black Samson of Brandywine," Paul Laurence Dunbar 2 min 28 "The Haunted Oak," Paul Laurence Dunbar 4 min 29 "Ode to Ethiopia," Paul Laurence Dunbar 3 min 30 from "The Finish of Patsy Barnes," Paul Laurence Dunbar 4 min 31 "Prophecy," Reverdy C. Ransom 2 min 32 "Hear, O Church," E.A. Long 2 min 33 "Dessalines," William Edgar Easton 6 min 34 "The Sisters," Charles W. Chesnutt 10 min 35 "Modern Christmas on the Plantation," William E. Burghardt DuBois 9 min 36 "The Farewell," John G. Whittier 4 min 37 "How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury 6 min 38 "The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont 4 min 39 "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," Walt Whitman 2 min 40 "The African Chief," William Cullen Bryant 3 min 41 "The Black Man's Burden," John White Chadwick 3 min 42 "The Lights at Carney's Point," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 3 min 43 "It's Me O Lord," Alma and Paul Ellerbe 4 min 44 "How France Received the Negro Soldiers," Emmett J. Scott 6 min 45 "How Jim Europe and His Jazz Outfit Broke into the War," Charles Welton 6 min 46 "The Stevedores," Ellen Wheeler Wilcox 2 min 47 "Shall I Say, 'My Son You Are Branded'," Georgia Douglas Johnson 1 min 48 "In Flanders Fields--an Echo," Orlando C. W. Taylor 2 min 49 "I Sit and Sew," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 2 min 50 "The Lynchers," Madison Cawein 2 min 51 "Ku Klux," Madison Cawein 2 min 52 "The Second Louisiana May 27,1863," George H. Boker 3 min 53 "To Canaan," Oliver Wendall Holmes 3 min 54 "The Hero of Fort Wagner," Phoebe Cary 3 min 55 "Bury Them--Wagner, July 18, 1863," Henry Howard Brownell 3 min 56 "Whether White or Black, A Man," Edith Smith Davis 7 min 57 Ethiopian Maid," Walter Everette Hawkins 2 min 58 "Mat," D. Webster Davis 2 min 59 "Belgium," Lester B. Granger 2 min 60 "Laus Deo," John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 61 "O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson 3 min 62 "The Young Warrior," E. Stoutenburg 4 min 63 "Mine Eyes Have Seen," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 16 min 64 "Winter Morning," Alexander Poushkin 2 min 65 "Winter Evening," Alexander Poushkin 2 min 66 "Friendship," Alexander Poushkin 1 min 67 "The Bard," Alexander Poushkin 1 min 68 "Frederick Douglass," Charles H. Chipman 8 min 69 "A Negro's Rebuke," Rosco Conkling Simmons 3 min 70 "Ask Our Constitutional Rights Now," Clayton Powell 6 min 71 "The Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass 8 min 72 "Lincoln and Douglass," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 10 min 73 "The Better Part," Booker T. Washington 6 min 74 "After Emancipation--Suffrage," Thaddeus Stevens 5 min 75 "Memorial Day in the South," "Jack Thorne" (David B. Fulton) 7 min 76 "Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips 6 min 77 "Abraham Lincoln," Frederick Douglass 12 min 78 "Fort Wagner," Anna E. Dickinson 6 min 79 "The Boys of Howard School," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr 5 min 80 "The Mulatto to His Critics," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr 1 min 81 "Negro Music," Emmett J. Scott 4 min 82 "Crispus Attucks," George L. Ruffin 5 min 83 "Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863," Abraham Lincoln 5 min 84 "To the Negro Farmers of the United States," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1 min 85 "Toussaint L'Ouverture," William Wordsworth 1 min 86 "Toussaint L'Ouverture," John G. Whittier 11 min 87 "Chalmette, Memorial Day," Alice Ruth Moore 4 min 88 "His Excellency, George Washington, 1775," Phyllis Wheatley 3 min 89 "Abraham Lincoln," David B. Fulton (Jack Thorne) 4 min 90 "Charles Sumner," Charlotte Forten Grimke 2 min 91 "Crispus Attucks," Rev. George C. Rowe 3 min 92 "Nat Turner," T. Thomas Fortune 2 min 93 "Emancipation," D. Webster Davis 7 min 94 "Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson 5 min 95 "Booker T. Washington," John Riley Dungee 2 min 96 "Booker T. Washington," Theodore Roosevelt 3 min
