Following the Color Line: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Following the Color Line, credited to Ray Stannard Baker, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Following the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker. Read in English by Roger Melin Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years following the end of the Civil War. The book is in three parts: The Negro in the South; The Negro in the North; and the Negro in the Nation. We are presented both rural and urban points of view, struggles for survival, varying district relationships, the effect of lynching, power struggles, and political repercussions, among many other topics. - Summary by Roger Melin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Following the Color Line
• Author credits: Ray Stannard Baker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 14:40:37

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• african american slaves
• race relations
• 20th century african americans
• negro
• negro history

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface — 3:36
2. 01 - A Race Riot and After - part 1 — 32:11
3. 02 - A Race Riot and After - part 2 — 35:16
4. 03 - Following the Colour Line in the South: A superficial View of Conditions - part 1 — 22:57
5. 04 - Following the Colour Line in the South: A superficial View of Conditions - part 2 — 30:32
6. 05 - The Southern City Negro - part 1 — 34:02
7. 06 - The Southern City Negro - part 2 — 27:45
8. 07 - In the Black Belt: The Negro Farmer - part 1 — 31:55
9. 08 - In the Black Belt: The Negro Farmer - part 2 — 29:33
10. 09 - Race Relationships in the South - part 1 — 31:14
11. 10 - Race Relationships in the South - part 2 — 25:17
12. 11 - Following the Colour Line in the North - part 1 — 29:57
13. 12 - Following the Colour Line in the North - part 2 — 29:11
14. 13 - The Negroes’ Struggle for Survival in Northern Cities - part 1 — 31:18
15. 14 - The Negroes’ Struggle for Survival in Northern Cities - part 2 — 21:48
16. 15 - The Mulatto: The Problem of Race Mixture - part 1 — 32:19
17. 16 - The Mulatto: The Problem of Race Mixture - part 2 — 39:26
18. 17 - Lynching, South and North - part 1 — 1:03:33
19. 18 - Lynching, South and North - part 2 — 57:38
20. 19 - An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem - part 1 — 17:11
21. 20 - An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem - part 2 — 32:56
22. 21 - The Negro in Politics - part 1 — 31:22
23. 22 - The Negro in Politics - part 2 — 24:32
24. 23 - The Black Man’s Silent Power - part 1 — 30:32

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