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The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

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From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race." This reader from 1920 is a collection of writings by an impressive line-up of African-American writers, activists, and educators. "It is the hope that this little book will find a large welcome in all sections of the country and will bring good cheer and encouragement to the young readers who have so largely the fortunes of their race in their own hands." - Summary by kathrinee and the editors. (6 hr 32 min)

Chapters

Forword and Introduction

8:04

Read by Diana Schmidt

The Boy and the Bayonet

16:44

Read by Jim Locke

The Beginnings of a Mississippi School

3:25

Read by Matthew Datcher

Up From Slavery: The Struggle for an Education

7:43

Read by Jim Locke

Booker T. Washington: A Student's Memory of him

3:43

Read by Matthew Datcher

Anna-Margaret

8:23

Read by Jim Locke

Charity

0:55

Read by Jim Locke

My First School

13:52

Read by Jim Locke

Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes

3:46

Read by Jim Locke

The Land of Laughter

8:48

Read by Jim Locke

The Web of Circumstance

1:08

Read by Jim Locke

Is the Game Worth the Candle?

9:59

Read by Matthew Datcher

O Black and Unknown Bards

3:16

Read by Jim Locke

The Greatest Menace of the South

10:21

Read by Jim Locke

The Enchanted Shell

2:35

Read by Jim Locke

Behind a Georgia Mule

9:22

Read by Jim Locke

Hayti and Toussant L'Ouverture

9:22

Read by Jim Locke

His Motto

10:15

Read by Jim Locke

The Months

4:30

Read by Jim Locke

The Colored Cadet at West Point

8:08

Read by Matthew Datcher

An Hymn to the Evening

1:39

Read by Jim Locke

Going to School under Difficulties

8:17

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Brave Son

1:11

Read by Matthew Datcher

Victory

12:59

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Dog and the Clever Rabbit

3:40

Read by Kalynda

The Boy and the Ideal

3:36

Read by Matthew Datcher

Children at Easter

1:57

Read by Matthew Datcher

Abraham Lincoln

5:22

Read by Jim Locke

Rondeau

1:17

Read by Matthew Datcher

How I Escaped

12:21

Read by Matthew Datcher

Frederick Douglass

10:05

Read by Jim Locke

Incident in the Life of Frederick Douglass

2:18

Read by Jim Locke

Animal Life in the Congo

11:36

Read by Jim Locke

Co-operation and the Latin Class

7:46

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Band of Gideon

2:12

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful

4:54

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Knighting of Donald

8:31

Read by Matthew Datcher

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

12:36

Read by Matthew Datcher

Benjamin Banneker

4:49

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Negro Race

1:10

Read by Matthew Datcher

Paul Cuffe

10:45

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Black Fairy

9:01

Read by Matthew Datcher

It's a Long Way

1:07

Read by Matthew Datcher

Negro Music that Stirred France

9:23

Read by Matthew Datcher

November 11, 1918

3:00

Read by Matthew Datcher

Sea Lyric

1:05

Read by Matthew Datcher

A Negro Woman's Hospitality

4:11

Read by Matthew Datcher

Record of "The Old Fifteenth" in France

2:41

Read by Matthew Datcher

Negro Soldiers

1:30

Read by Matthew Datcher

The "Devil Bush" and the "Greegree Bush"

5:42

Read by Matthew Datcher

Evening Prayer

1:16

Read by Jim Locke

The Strenuous Life

4:01

Read by Matthew Datcher

O Little David, Play on your Harp

1:09

Read by Matthew Datcher

A Day at Kalk Bay, South Africa

4:18

Read by Matthew Datcher

Bishop Atticus G. Haygood

2:42

Read by Jim Locke

How Two Colored Captains Fell

2:15

Read by Matthew Datcher

The Young Warrior

1:22

Read by Jim Locke

Whole Regiments Decorated

1:08

Read by Matthew Datcher

On Planting Artichokes: From the Life of Scott Bond

6:36

Read by Jim Locke

A Song of Thanks

3:22

Read by Matthew Datcher

Our Dumb Animals

2:32

Read by Matthew Datcher

A Legend of the Blue Jay

3:41

Read by Jim Locke

David Livingstone

6:21

Read by Matthew Datcher

Ira Aldridge

6:50

Read by Jim Locke

Fifty Years: 1863-1913

5:35

Read by Jim Locke

A Great Kingdom in the Congo

25:00

Read by Jim Locke

Pillars of the State

1:16

Read by Matthew Datcher

Oath of Afro-American Youth

1:48

Read by Matthew Datcher