Fact Stranger than Fiction

John Patterson Green (1845 - 1940)

I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the handicap of color and former restrictions are so much in evidence, ambition, united with reasonable endeavor, will surely win success, along some worthy line. (Summary by the author)

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Origin of the Family Green Jim Locke
00:37:40
Play 02 Childhood Days Jim Locke
00:47:41
Play 03 Bitter-Sweet Jim Locke
00:37:53
Play 04 Mayflower Common and Sunday Schools and Troy Hill Jim Locke
00:35:25
Play 05 Home Again Jim Locke
00:39:48
Play 06 Sojourning in Dixieland Jim Locke
00:53:16
Play 07 Back to Cleveland Jim Locke
00:44:00
Play 08 Making Law and Practicing Law Jim Locke
00:29:13
Play 09 Second Term in the General Assembly; Daddy of Labor Day Jim Locke
00:13:17
Play 10 In the Senate; Sunshine and Shadow Jim Locke
00:30:00
Play 11 John D. Rockefeller Jim Locke
00:21:25
Play 12 Great Britain Jim Locke
00:46:18
Play 13 Dundee, Aberdeen, Huntley, and Glasgow Jim Locke
00:22:25
Play 14 William McKinley Jim Locke
00:34:06
Play 15 Home Again and European Trip Jim Locke
00:30:05
Play 16 Rome, Florence, Venice, Vienna Jim Locke
00:32:32
Play 17 The Austrian Tyrol, Paris, and Ireland Jim Locke
00:31:48
Play 18 Home Again Jim Locke
00:48:51