Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875 - 1935)

It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give pause and look around him at the things which he has done, those which he might have done, and those which he intends to do. We pause, just at the beginning of another half century, taking stock of past achievements, present conditions, future possibilities. (Preface)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Keyword(s): history (878), war (233), education (96), short works (32), race in america (2)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Jim Locke
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Play 01 Prince Saunders Jim Locke
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Play 02 James McCune Smith Jim Locke
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Play 03 Hilary Teague Jim Locke
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Play 04 Frederick Douglass Jim Locke
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Play 05 Charles H. Langston Jim Locke
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Play 06 Richard T. Greener Jim Locke
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Play 07 Robert Browne Elliot Jim Locke
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Play 08 John R. Lynch Jim Locke
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Play 09 Alexander Dumas, Fils Jim Locke
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Play 10 John M. Langston Jim Locke
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Play 11 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Jim Locke
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Play 12 Henry Highland Garnet Jim Locke
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Play 13 George L. Ruffin Jim Locke
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Play 14 Frederick Douglass Jim Locke
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Play 15 P.B.S. Pinchback Jim Locke
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Play 16 Alexander Crummell Jim Locke
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Play 17 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Jim Locke
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Play 18 James Madison Vance Jim Locke
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Play 19 Booker T Washington Jim Locke
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Play 20 Booker T. Washington Jim Locke
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Play 21 Christian A. Fleetwood Jim Locke
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Play 22 Charles W. Anderson Jim Locke
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Play 23 William Sanders Scarborough Jim Locke
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Play 24 Nathan F. Mossell Jim Locke
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Play 25 George W. White Jim Locke
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Play 26 Levi J. Coppin Jim Locke
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Play 27 Fanny Jackson Coppin Jim Locke
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Play 28 William J. Gaines Jim Locke
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Play 29 Edward Wilmot Blyden Jim Locke
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Play 30 W. Justin Carter Jim Locke
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Play 31 Theophilus G. Steward Jim Locke
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Play 32 D. Webster Davis Jim Locke
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Play 33 Reverdy C. Ransom Jim Locke
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Play 34 James L. Curtis Jim Locke
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Play 35 Archibald H. Grimke Jim Locke
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Play 36 Francis J. Grimke Jim Locke
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Play 37 James E. Shepard Jim Locke
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Play 38 Robert Russa Moton Jim Locke
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Play 39 George William Cook Jim Locke
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Play 40 J. Milton Waldron Jim Locke
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Play 41 J. Francis Gregory Jim Locke
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Play 42 William C. Jason Jim Locke
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Play 43 William H. Lewis Jim Locke
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Play 44 Alice M. Dunbar Jim Locke
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Play 45 Kelly Miller Jim Locke
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Play 46 Robert T. Jones Jim Locke
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Play 47 Ernest Lyon Jim Locke
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Play 48 John C. Dancy Jim Locke
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Play 49 W. Ashbie Hawkins Jim Locke
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Play 50 W.E.B. Dubois Jim Locke
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