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The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875 - 1935)

Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson's book is seen to have peculiar significance to the colored race in America. Hers is the first attempt I have known of directly on the part of any Negro to frame a speaker composed entirely of literature produced by black men and women, and about black men and women, and embodying the finest spiritual ideals of the Negro race." And in addition, Alice Dunbar-Nelson includes some very meaningful support from some Caucasian writers. (Summary by Jim Locke)

Genre(s): Literary Collections

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Forward and Introduction	Jim Locke	00:08:28
Play 01	"The Birdlet," Alexander Poushkin	Jim Locke	00:01:14
Play 02	"The Sparrow's Fall," Frances E. W. Harper	Jim Locke	00:02:01
Play 03	"The Seedling," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:01:31
Play 04	"While April Breezes Blow," D.T. Williamson	Jim Locke	00:02:32
Play 05	"Thanksgiving," William Stanley Braithwaite	Jim Locke	00:01:14
Play 06	"The Cucuya or Firefly," a Cuban slave	Jim Locke	00:03:38
Play 07	"The Clock that Gains," the Cuban slave	Jim Locke	00:00:59
Play 08	"A June Song," Charlotte Forten Grimke	Jim Locke	00:02:40
Play 09	"A City Garden," William Stanley Braithwaite	Jim Locke	00:01:19
Play 10	"De 'Lil Black Sheep," Ballarat (Australia) Chronicle	Jim Locke	00:01:46
Play 11	"In the Morning," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:02:34
Play 12	"Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:03:33
Play 13	"The Case of Ca'line," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:07:31
Play 14	"Sambo's Right to Be Kilt," Private Miles O'Reilly	Jim Locke	00:02:13
Play 15	"An Easter Symbol," Ruth McEnery Stuart	Jim Locke	00:04:28
Play 16	"The Funal of Bruh Tony Smiff," John Riley Dungee	Jim Locke	00:08:17
Play 17	"Tunk," James Weldon Johnnson	Jim Locke	00:02:41
Play 18	"Uncle Ike's Roosters," Anonymous	Jim Locke	00:04:27
Play 19	"W'en Dey 'Listed the Colored Soldiers," Paul Lawrence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:03:51
Play 20	"The Praline Woman," Alice Ruth Moore	Jim Locke	00:05:24
Play 21	"Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance," Payne Erskine	Jim Locke	00:20:27
Play 22	"The Four Travelers," Will Carlton	Jim Locke	00:03:23
Play 23	"The Band of Gideon," Joseph Cotter, Jr.	Jim Locke	00:01:57
Play 24	"The White Witch," James Weldon Johnson	Jim Locke	00:02:47
Play 25	"The Unsung Heroes," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:02:55
Play 26	"Black Samson of Brandywine," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:02:29
Play 27	"The Haunted Oak," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:03:34
Play 28	"Ode to Ethiopia," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:02:45
Play 29	from "The Finish of Patsy Barnes," Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jim Locke	00:03:50
Play 30	"Prophecy," Reverdy C. Ransom	Jim Locke	00:02:15
Play 31	"Hear, O Church," E.A. Long	Jim Locke	00:02:28
Play 32	"Dessalines," William Edgar Easton	Jim Locke	00:06:06
Play 33	"The Sisters," Charles W. Chesnutt	Jim Locke	00:10:25
Play 34	"Modern Christmas on the Plantation," William E. Burghardt DuBois	Jim Locke	00:08:39
Play 35	"The Farewell," John G. Whittier	Jim Locke	00:03:32
Play 36	"How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury	Jim Locke	00:05:44
Play 37	"The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont	Jim Locke	00:04:16
Play 38	"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," Walt Whitman	Jim Locke	00:01:46
Play 39	"The African Chief," William Cullen Bryant	Jim Locke	00:03:12
Play 40	"The Black Man's Burden," John White Chadwick	Jim Locke	00:02:39
Play 41	"The Lights at Carney's Point," Alice Dunbar-Nelson	Jim Locke	00:02:55
Play 42	"It's Me O Lord," Alma and Paul Ellerbe	Jim Locke	00:03:40
Play 43	"How France Received the Negro Soldiers," Emmett J. Scott	Jim Locke	00:05:31
Play 44	"How Jim Europe and His Jazz Outfit Broke into the War," Charles Welton	Jim Locke	00:05:52
Play 45	"The Stevedores," Ellen Wheeler Wilcox	Jim Locke	00:02:02
Play 46	"Shall I Say, 'My Son You Are Branded'," Georgia Douglas Johnson	Jim Locke	00:01:24
Play 47	"In Flanders Fields--an Echo," Orlando C. W. Taylor	Jim Locke	00:01:33
Play 48	"I Sit and Sew," Alice Dunbar-Nelson	Jim Locke	00:01:52
Play 49	"The Lynchers," Madison Cawein	Jim Locke	00:01:40
Play 50	"Ku Klux," Madison Cawein	Jim Locke	00:02:09
Play 51	"The Second Louisiana May 27,1863," George H. Boker	Jim Locke	00:03:27
Play 52	"To Canaan," Oliver Wendall Holmes	Jim Locke	00:02:54
Play 53	"The Hero of Fort Wagner," Phoebe Cary	Jim Locke	00:02:32
Play 54	"Bury Them--Wagner, July 18, 1863," Henry Howard Brownell	Jim Locke	00:02:34
Play 55	"Whether White or Black, A Man," Edith Smith Davis	Jim Locke	00:06:37
Play 56	Ethiopian Maid," Walter Everette Hawkins	Jim Locke	00:01:34
Play 57	"Mat," D. Webster Davis	Jim Locke	00:02:03
Play 58	"Belgium," Lester B. Granger	Jim Locke	00:02:02
Play 59	"Laus Deo," John Greenleaf Whittier	Jim Locke	00:02:21
Play 60	"O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson	Jim Locke	00:03:23
Play 61	"The Young Warrior," E. Stoutenburg	Jim Locke	00:03:42
Play 62	"Mine Eyes Have Seen," Alice Dunbar-Nelson	Jim Locke	00:16:27
Play 63	"Winter Morning," Alexander Poushkin	Jim Locke	00:01:50
Play 64	"Winter Evening," Alexander Poushkin	Jim Locke	00:01:54
Play 65	"Friendship," Alexander Poushkin	Jim Locke	00:00:33
Play 66	"The Bard," Alexander Poushkin	Jim Locke	00:01:04
Play 67	"Frederick Douglass," Charles H. Chipman	Jim Locke	00:08:21
Play 68	"A Negro's Rebuke," Rosco Conkling Simmons	Jim Locke	00:02:47
Play 69	"Ask Our Constitutional Rights Now," Clayton Powell	Jim Locke	00:05:57
Play 70	"The Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass	Jim Locke	00:08:24
Play 71	"Lincoln and Douglass," Alice Dunbar-Nelson	Jim Locke	00:10:08
Play 72	"The Better Part," Booker T. Washington	Jim Locke	00:06:24
Play 73	"After Emancipation--Suffrage," Thaddeus Stevens	Jim Locke	00:04:42
Play 74	"Memorial Day in the South," "Jack Thorne" (David B. Fulton)	Jim Locke	00:06:46
Play 75	"Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips	Jim Locke	00:05:33
Play 76	"Abraham Lincoln," Frederick Douglass	Jim Locke	00:12:14
Play 77	"Fort Wagner," Anna E. Dickinson	Jim Locke	00:05:35
Play 78	"The Boys of Howard School," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.	Jim Locke	00:04:31
Play 79	"The Mulatto to His Critics," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr	Jim Locke	00:01:05
Play 80	"Negro Music," Emmett J. Scott	Jim Locke	00:04:14
Play 81	"Crispus Attucks," George L. Ruffin	Jim Locke	00:05:02
Play 82	"Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863," Abraham Lincoln	Jim Locke	00:04:50
Play 83	"To the Negro Farmers of the United States," Alice Dunbar-Nelson	Jim Locke	00:01:29
Play 84	"Toussaint L'Ouverture," William Wordsworth	Jim Locke	00:01:18
Play 85	"Toussaint L'Ouverture," John G. Whittier	Jim Locke	00:10:41
Play 86	"Chalmette, Memorial Day," Alice Ruth Moore	Jim Locke	00:03:42
Play 87	"His Excellency, George Washington, 1775," Phyllis Wheatley	Jim Locke	00:02:59
Play 88	"Abraham Lincoln," David B. Fulton (Jack Thorne)	Jim Locke	00:04:01
Play 89	"Charles Sumner," Charlotte Forten Grimke	Jim Locke	00:02:26
Play 90	"Crispus Attucks," Rev. George C. Rowe	Jim Locke	00:03:13
Play 91	"Nat Turner," T. Thomas Fortune	Jim Locke	00:02:22
Play 92	"Emancipation," D. Webster Davis	Jim Locke	00:06:38
Play 93	"Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson	Jim Locke	00:04:54
Play 94	"Booker T. Washington," John Riley Dungee	Jim Locke	00:02:29
Play 95	"Booker T. Washington," Theodore Roosevelt	Jim Locke	00:03:02

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