Description
DESCRIPTION
Performed by Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Jean Brannon, W.E.B. DuBois, and Pete Seeger, this collection of spoken word, oral history, speech and song represents a comprehensive sociopolitical history of black America. Beginning with America's rediscovery in 1492 and Columbus's supposedly black pilot, Pedro Alonso Ni+¦o, the collection covers the colonial period, the slave experience, the Civil war, notable African-American women, nineteenth-century black intellectuals, the Jim Crow years and the struggle for civil rights, ending with the late Martin Luther King Jr.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Blacks with the Spanish Explorers
2 Black Valor
3 Black Sailors
4 Black Archives
5 Ballad of Benjamin Banneker
6 African Chants/Oh Freedom
7 Go Down Moses/John Brown's Body/Legacy
8 Election of Lincoln/Lincoln and Libery
9 Secession of the South/Bonnie Blue Flag
10 Civil War
11 Emancipation Proclamation
12 Negro Troops
13 In Charleston Jail/Douglass Meets Lincoln
14 Death of Lincoln/Freedom and Equality
15 Old Rebel/14Th and 15th Amendments
16 Ballad of Sojourner Truth
17 Ballad of Harriet Tubman
18 Francis Watkins Harper
19 Ida B. Wells Barnett
20 Eleanor Holmes Norton
21 Shirley Chisholm
- Disc 2 -
1 Ballad of Frederick Douglass
2 Booker T Washington/George Washington Carver
3 Let's Move It/W.E.B. Dubois
4 If We Must Die
5 Ballad of the Deacons
6 The Negro Voter/The State of Arkansas
7 President Kennedy's Press Conference
8 Rev. Ralph Abernathy
9 Martin Luther King/Ballad of Dr. King/We Shall Overcome
