Hughes, Langston: The Glory of Negro History
Hughes, Langston: The Glory of Negro History
Format: CD
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Artist: Hughes, Langston
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070775220
Genre: Spoken, African
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.
Tracks:
1.1 Part I - the Struggle: The Struggle
1.2 Part I - the Struggle: Negroes with the Spanish Explorers
1.3 Part I - the Struggle: African Chant
1.4 Part I - the Struggle: Phyllis Wheatley
1.5 Part I - the Struggle: Oh Freedom
1.6 Part I - the Struggle: Sojourner Truth
1.7 Part I - the Struggle: Steal Away
1.8 Part I - the Struggle: Harriet Tubman
1.9 Part I - the Struggle: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
1.10 Part I - the Struggle: Harriet Tubman, Pt. 2
1.11 Part I - the Struggle: Old Riley
1.12 Part I - the Struggle: Frederick Douglass
1.13 Part I - the Struggle: Go Down Moses
1.14 Part I - the Struggle: John Brown
1.15 Part I - the Struggle: John Brown's Body
1.16 Part I - the Struggle: Battle Hymn of the Republic
1.17 Part I - the Struggle: Abraham Lincoln
1.18 Part Ii- the Glory: The Glory- Walt Whitman
1.19 Part Ii- the Glory: Reconstruction
1.20 Part II - the Glory: Trouble in Mind
1.21 Part Ii- the Glory: Booker T. Washington
1.22 Part Ii- the Glory: George Washington Carver
1.23 Part II - the Glory: Dallas Rag
1.24 Part II - the Glory: Little Brown Baby
1.25 Part II - the Glory: I'm Not Rough
1.26 Part Ii- the Glory: World War I
1.27 Part II - the Glory: If We Must Die
1.28 Part Ii- the Glory: Naacp Founding and Activities
1.29 Part II - the Glory: Organ Grinder's Swing
1.30 Part II - the Glory: Ralph Bunche
1.31 Part Ii- the Glory: Mary McLeod Bethune
1.32 Part II - the Glory: Battle Hymn of the Republic
