The Black Experience in America

Published by Author's Republic

Narrated by Various Narrators

A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.





CONTENTS:


Ex-slave James Bolton - United States Work Projects Administration


Death of Charles - by Ida B. Wells-Barnett


Fifty Years - by James Weldon Johnson


Personal Liberty Laws - by Marion Gleason McDougall


Reporting - by Henry Ossian Flipper


The Ku Klux Klan - by Eyre Damer


Your Negro Neighbor - by Benjamin Griffith Brawley


The Praline Woman - by Alice Dunbar Nelson


Ex-Slave Minnie Davis - United States Work Projects Administration


Where The Negro Lives - by Mary White Ovington


Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon - by James Weldon Johnson


A Plea For Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson Coppin


Sketches of the Black Baptist Church - by Various


Lawing and Jawing - by Zora Neale Hurston


Excerpt from The Future of the American Negro - by Booker T. Washington


Hot Foot Hannibal - by Charles Waddell Chesnutt


The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization - by Monroe Nathan Work


The Sunday School and Church... - by Daniel Webster Davis


Ex-Slave Pierce Cody - United States Work Projects Administration


Here Comes A Young Man Courting - by Thomas Washington Talley


'Lazy' - by James Weldon Johnson


Of The Meaning of Progress - by W. E. B. Du Bois

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Jun 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781518953415