Black American History / Var Black American History / Var CD

Performed by Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Jean Brannon, W.E.B. DuBois, and Pete Seeger, this collection of spoken word, oral history, speech and song represents a comprehensive sociopolitical history of black America. Beginning with America's rediscovery in 1492 and Columbus's supposedly black pilot, Pedro Alonso Ni+¬o, the collection covers the colonial period, the slave experience, the Civil war, notable African-American women, nineteenth-century black intellectuals, the Jim Crow years and the struggle for civil rights, ending with the late Martin Luther King Jr.

1. Blacks with the Spanish Explorers 2. Black Valor 3. Black Sailors 4. Black Archives 5. Ballad of Benjamin Banneker 6. African Chants/Oh Freedom 7. Go Down Moses/John Brown's Body/Legacy 8. Election of Lincoln/Lincoln and Libery 9. Secession of the South/Bonnie Blue Flag 10. Civil War 11. Emancipation Proclamation 12. Negro Troops 13. In Charleston Jail/Douglass Meets Lincoln 14. Death of Lincoln/Freedom and Equality 15. Old Rebel/14Th and 15th Amendments 16. Ballad of Sojourner Truth 17. Ballad of Harriet Tubman 18. Francis Watkins Harper 19. Ida B. Wells Barnett 20. Eleanor Holmes Norton 21. Shirley Chisholm 22. Ballad of Frederick Douglass 23. Booker T Washington/George Washington Carver 24. Let's Move It/W.E.B. Dubois 25. If We Must Die 26. Ballad of the Deacons 27. The Negro Voter/The State of Arkansas 28. President Kennedy's Press Conference 29. Rev. Ralph Abernathy 30. Martin Luther King/Ballad of Dr. King/We Shall Overcome