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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

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Read by Diana Schmidt, Jim Locke, Matthew Datcher and Kalynda · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Forword and Introduction (8:04)
The Boy and the Bayonet (16:44)
The Beginnings of a Mississippi School (3:25)
Up From Slavery: The Struggle for an Education (7:43)
Booker T. Washington: A Student's Memory of him (3:43)
Anna-Margaret (8:23)
Charity (0:55)
My First School (13:52)
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes (3:46)
The Land of Laughter (8:48)
The Web of Circumstance (1:08)
Is the Game Worth the Candle? (9:59)
O Black and Unknown Bards (3:16)
The Greatest Menace of the South (10:21)
The Enchanted Shell (2:35)
Behind a Georgia Mule (9:22)
Hayti and Toussant L'Ouverture (9:22)
His Motto (10:15)
The Months (4:30)
The Colored Cadet at West Point (8:08)
An Hymn to the Evening (1:39)
Going to School under Difficulties (8:17)
The Brave Son (1:11)
Victory (12:59)
The Dog and the Clever Rabbit (3:40)
The Boy and the Ideal (3:36)
Children at Easter (1:57)
Abraham Lincoln (5:22)
Rondeau (1:17)
How I Escaped (12:21)
Frederick Douglass (10:05)
Incident in the Life of Frederick Douglass (2:18)
Animal Life in the Congo (11:36)
Co-operation and the Latin Class (7:46)
The Band of Gideon (2:12)
The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful (4:54)
The Knighting of Donald (8:31)
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (12:36)
Benjamin Banneker (4:49)
The Negro Race (1:10)
Paul Cuffe (10:45)
The Black Fairy (9:01)
It's a Long Way (1:07)
Negro Music that Stirred France (9:23)
November 11, 1918 (3:00)
Sea Lyric (1:05)
A Negro Woman's Hospitality (4:11)
Record of "The Old Fifteenth" in France (2:41)
Negro Soldiers (1:30)
The "Devil Bush" and the "Greegree Bush" (5:42)
Evening Prayer (1:16)
The Strenuous Life (4:01)
O Little David, Play on your Harp (1:09)
A Day at Kalk Bay, South Africa (4:18)
Bishop Atticus G. Haygood (2:42)
How Two Colored Captains Fell (2:15)
The Young Warrior (1:22)
Whole Regiments Decorated (1:08)
On Planting Artichokes: From the Life of Scott Bond (6:36)
A Song of Thanks (3:22)
Our Dumb Animals (2:32)
A Legend of the Blue Jay (3:41)
David Livingstone (6:21)
Ira Aldridge (6:50)
Fifty Years: 1863-1913 (5:35)
A Great Kingdom in the Congo (25:00)
Pillars of the State (1:16)
Oath of Afro-American Youth (1:48)