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