The Glory of Negro History

In this collection of prose and song, Langston Hughes narrates the history of the African-American people. Beginning with the struggles associated with slavery and punctuated with African chants and freedom songs sung by Brownie McGhee, Hilda Haynes and Leadbelly, Hughes imparts the glory and triumphs of African-Americans, which include the accomplishments of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, the founding of the NAACP, the sporting legends Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis and the music of William Grant and Ella Fitzgerald.

Track Listing

101	Part I - The Struggle Langston Hughes	00:24
102	Part I - The Struggle: Negroes with the Spanish Explorers Langston Hughes	02:28
103	Part I - The Struggle: African Chant Langston Hughes	00:11
104	Part I - The Struggle: Phyllis Wheatley Langston Hughes	02:53
105	Part I - The Struggle: Oh Freedom Leon Bibb	00:22
106	Part I - The Struggle: Sojourner Truth Langston Hughes	03:05
107	Part I - The Struggle: Steal Away Hilda Haynes	00:50
108	Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman Langston Hughes	02:01
109	Part I - The Struggle: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Hilda Haynes	00:55
110	Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman (Continued) Langston Hughes	00:38
111	Part I - The Struggle: Old Riley Langston Hughes and Lead Belly	02:08
112	Part I - The Struggle: Frederick Douglass Langston Hughes	02:28
113	Part I - The Struggle: Go Down Moses Clark Morgan	00:28
114	Part I - The Struggle: John Brown Langston Hughes	01:48
115	Part I - The Struggle: John Brown's Body Hermes Nye	02:00
116	Part I - The Struggle: Battle Hymn of the Republic Hermes Nye, Brownie McGhee	00:57
117	Part I - The Struggle: Abraham Lincoln Langston Hughes, George McClain Chorale	01:08
118	Part II - The Glory: The Glory - Walt Whitman Langston Hughes	00:50
119	Part II - The Glory: Reconstruction Langston Hughes	01:01
120	Part II - The Glory: Trouble in Mind Bertha Chippie Hill	02:04
121	Part II - The Glory: Booker T. Washington Langston Hughes	05:09
122	Part II - The Glory: George Washington Carver Langston Hughes	01:11
123	Part II - The Glory: Dallas Rag Dallas String Band	02:53
124	Part II - The Glory: Little Brown Baby Paul Laurence Dunbar	02:46
125	Part II - The Glory: I'm Not Rough Louis Armstrong	02:45
126	Part II - The Glory: World War I Langston Hughes	00:41
127	Part II - The Glory: If We Must Die Claude McKay	01:05
128	Part II - The Glory: NAACP Founding and Activities Langston Hughes	02:17
129	Part II - The Glory: Organ Grinder's Swing Ella Fitzgerald	00:46
130	Part II - The Glory: Ralph Bunche Langston Hughes	00:46
131	Part II - The Glory: Mary McLeod Bethune Langston Hughes	02:29
132	Part II - The Glory: Battle Hymn of the Republic George D. McClain	00:35