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Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

Name: Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Read by Jim Locke · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Forward and Introduction (8:28)
"The Birdlet," Alexander Poushkin (1:14)
"The Sparrow's Fall," Frances E. W. Harper (2:01)
"The Seedling," Paul Laurence Dunbar (1:31)
"While April Breezes Blow," D.T. Williamson (2:32)
"Thanksgiving," William Stanley Braithwaite (1:14)
"The Cucuya or Firefly," a Cuban slave (3:38)
"The Clock that Gains," the Cuban slave (0:59)
"A June Song," Charlotte Forten Grimke (2:40)
"A City Garden," William Stanley Braithwaite (1:19)
"De 'Lil Black Sheep," Ballarat (Australia) Chronicle (1:46)
"In the Morning," Paul Laurence Dunbar (2:34)
"Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine," Paul Laurence Dunbar (3:33)
"The Case of Ca'line," Paul Laurence Dunbar (7:31)
"Sambo's Right to Be Kilt," Private Miles O'Reilly (2:13)
"An Easter Symbol," Ruth McEnery Stuart (4:28)
"The Funal of Bruh Tony Smiff," John Riley Dungee (8:17)
"Tunk," James Weldon Johnnson (2:41)
"Uncle Ike's Roosters," Anonymous (4:27)
"W'en Dey 'Listed the Colored Soldiers," Paul Lawrence Dunbar (3:51)
"The Praline Woman," Alice Ruth Moore (5:24)
"Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance," Payne Erskine (20:27)
"The Four Travelers," Will Carlton (3:23)
"The Band of Gideon," Joseph Cotter, Jr. (1:57)
"The White Witch," James Weldon Johnson (2:47)
"The Unsung Heroes," Paul Laurence Dunbar (2:55)
"Black Samson of Brandywine," Paul Laurence Dunbar (2:29)
"The Haunted Oak," Paul Laurence Dunbar (3:34)
"Ode to Ethiopia," Paul Laurence Dunbar (2:45)
from "The Finish of Patsy Barnes," Paul Laurence Dunbar (3:50)
"Prophecy," Reverdy C. Ransom (2:15)
"Hear, O Church," E.A. Long (2:28)
"Dessalines," William Edgar Easton (6:06)
"The Sisters," Charles W. Chesnutt (10:25)
"Modern Christmas on the Plantation," William E. Burghardt DuBois (8:39)
"The Farewell," John G. Whittier (3:32)
"How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury (5:44)
"The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont (4:16)
"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," Walt Whitman (1:46)
"The African Chief," William Cullen Bryant (3:12)
"The Black Man's Burden," John White Chadwick (2:39)
"The Lights at Carney's Point," Alice Dunbar-Nelson (2:55)
"It's Me O Lord," Alma and Paul Ellerbe (3:40)
"How France Received the Negro Soldiers," Emmett J. Scott (5:31)
"How Jim Europe and His Jazz Outfit Broke into the War," Charles Welton (5:52)
"The Stevedores," Ellen Wheeler Wilcox (2:02)
"Shall I Say, 'My Son You Are Branded'," Georgia Douglas Johnson (1:24)
"In Flanders Fields--an Echo," Orlando C. W. Taylor (1:33)
"I Sit and Sew," Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1:52)
"The Lynchers," Madison Cawein (1:40)
"Ku Klux," Madison Cawein (2:09)
"The Second Louisiana May 27,1863," George H. Boker (3:27)
"To Canaan," Oliver Wendall Holmes (2:54)
"The Hero of Fort Wagner," Phoebe Cary (2:32)
"Bury Them--Wagner, July 18, 1863," Henry Howard Brownell (2:34)
"Whether White or Black, A Man," Edith Smith Davis (6:37)
Ethiopian Maid," Walter Everette Hawkins (1:34)
"Mat," D. Webster Davis (2:03)
"Belgium," Lester B. Granger (2:02)
"Laus Deo," John Greenleaf Whittier (2:21)
"O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson (3:23)
"The Young Warrior," E. Stoutenburg (3:42)
"Mine Eyes Have Seen," Alice Dunbar-Nelson (16:27)
"Winter Morning," Alexander Poushkin (1:50)
"Winter Evening," Alexander Poushkin (1:54)
"Friendship," Alexander Poushkin (0:33)
"The Bard," Alexander Poushkin (1:04)
"Frederick Douglass," Charles H. Chipman (8:21)
"A Negro's Rebuke," Rosco Conkling Simmons (2:47)
"Ask Our Constitutional Rights Now," Clayton Powell (5:57)
"The Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass (8:24)
"Lincoln and Douglass," Alice Dunbar-Nelson (10:08)
"The Better Part," Booker T. Washington (6:24)
"After Emancipation--Suffrage," Thaddeus Stevens (4:42)
"Memorial Day in the South," "Jack Thorne" (David B. Fulton) (6:46)
"Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips (5:33)
"Abraham Lincoln," Frederick Douglass (12:14)
"Fort Wagner," Anna E. Dickinson (5:35)
"The Boys of Howard School," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. (4:31)
"The Mulatto to His Critics," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr (1:05)
"Negro Music," Emmett J. Scott (4:14)
"Crispus Attucks," George L. Ruffin (5:02)
"Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863," Abraham Lincoln (4:50)
"To the Negro Farmers of the United States," Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1:29)
"Toussaint L'Ouverture," William Wordsworth (1:18)
"Toussaint L'Ouverture," John G. Whittier (10:41)
"Chalmette, Memorial Day," Alice Ruth Moore (3:42)
"His Excellency, George Washington, 1775," Phyllis Wheatley (2:59)
"Abraham Lincoln," David B. Fulton (Jack Thorne) (4:01)
"Charles Sumner," Charlotte Forten Grimke (2:26)
"Crispus Attucks," Rev. George C. Rowe (3:13)
"Nat Turner," T. Thomas Fortune (2:22)
"Emancipation," D. Webster Davis (6:38)
"Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson (4:54)
"Booker T. Washington," John Riley Dungee (2:29)
"Booker T. Washington," Theodore Roosevelt (3:02)