The glory of Negro history / L. Hughes.

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 triump...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Other Authors: Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
Language:English
Published: New York : Folkways Records, 1960, 1966.
Subjects:
African Americans > Songs and music.
African Americans > History.
Genre:
Songs and music.
Physical Description:1 audio disc : 33 1/3 rpm, mono ; 12 in.
Format: CD Audio
Contents:
  • The struggle (0:24)
  • Negros with Spanish explorers (2:28)
  • African chant (0:11)
  • Phyllis Wheatley (2:53)
  • Oh freedom / (Leon Bibb) (0:22)
  • Sojourner Truth (3:05)
  • Steal away / (Hilda Haynes) (0:50)
  • Harriet Tubman (2:01)
  • Swing low, sweet chariot / (Hilda Haynes) (0:38)
  • Harriet Tubman (cont.) (0:38)
  • Old Riley / (Huddie Leadbetter) (2:08)
  • Frederick Douglass (2:28)
  • Go down Moses / (Llark Morgan) (0:28)
  • John Brown (1:48)
  • John Brown's body (2:00)
  • Battle hymn of the republic (0:57)
  • Abraham Lincoln (1:08)
  • The glory / Walt Whitman (0:50)
  • Reconstruction (1:01)
  • Trouble in mind / (Bertha Chipple Hill) (2:04)
  • Booker T. Washington (5:09)
  • George W. Carver (1:11)
  • Dallas rag / (Dallas String Band) (2:53)
  • Little brown baby (2:46)
  • I'm not rough / (Louis Armstrong) (2:45)
  • World War I (0:41)
  • If we must die (1:05)
  • NAACP founding and activities (2:17)
  • Organ grinder's swing / (Ella Fitzgerald) (0:46)
  • Mary Mcleod Bethune (2:29)
  • Battle hymn of the republic / (George McClain Chorale) (0:35).