In this collection of prose and song, Langston Hughes narrates the history of the African-American people. Beginning with the struggles associated with slavery and punctuated with African chants and freedom songs sung by Brownie McGhee, Hilda Haynes and Leadbelly, Hughes imparts the glory and triumphs of African-Americans, which include the accomplishments of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, the founding of the NAACP, the sporting legends Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis and the music of William Grant and Ella Fitzgerald.
2 Part I - the Struggle: Negroes with the Spanish Explorers
3 Part I - the Struggle: African Chant
4 Part I - the Struggle: Phyllis Wheatley
5 Part I - the Struggle: Oh Freedom
6 Part I - the Struggle: Sojourner Truth
7 Part I - the Struggle: Steal Away
8 Part I - the Struggle: Harriet Tubman
9 Part I - the Struggle: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
10 Part I - the Struggle: Harriet Tubman, Pt. 2
11 Part I - the Struggle: Old Riley
12 Part I - the Struggle: Frederick Douglass
13 Part I - the Struggle: Go Down Moses
14 Part I - the Struggle: John Brown
15 Part I - the Struggle: John Brown's Body
16 Part I - the Struggle: Battle Hymn of the Republic
17 Part I - the Struggle: Abraham Lincoln
18 Part Ii- the Glory: The Glory- Walt Whitman
19 Part Ii- the Glory: Reconstruction
20 Part II - the Glory: Trouble in Mind
21 Part Ii- the Glory: Booker T. Washington
22 Part Ii- the Glory: George Washington Carver
23 Part II - the Glory: Dallas Rag
24 Part II - the Glory: Little Brown Baby
25 Part II - the Glory: I'm Not Rough
26 Part Ii- the Glory: World War I
27 Part II - the Glory: If We Must Die
28 Part Ii- the Glory: Naacp Founding and Activities
29 Part II - the Glory: Organ Grinder's Swing
30 Part II - the Glory: Ralph Bunche
31 Part Ii- the Glory: Mary McLeod Bethune
32 Part II - the Glory: Battle Hymn of the Republic
In this collection of prose and song, Langston Hughes narrates the history of the African-American people. Beginning with the struggles associated with slavery and punctuated with African chants and freedom songs sung by Brownie McGhee, Hilda Haynes and Leadbelly, Hughes imparts the glory and triumphs of African-Americans, which include the accomplishments of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, the founding of the NAACP, the sporting legends Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis and the music of William Grant and Ella Fitzgerald.
