The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children, credited to Various, 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 The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children by Various. Read in English by Diana Schmidt; Jim Locke; Matthew Datcher; Kalynda From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race." This reader from 1920 is a collection of writings be an impressive line-up of African-American writers, activists, and educators. "It is the hope that this little book will find a large welcome in all sections of the country and will bring good cheer and encouragement to the young readers who have so largely the fortunes of their race in their own hands." - Summary by kathrinee and the editors.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 68
• Listed recording duration: 6:32:12

Catalogue topics

• african-american
• inspirational
• reader

Opening tracks: first 24 of 68

1. 00 - Forword and Introduction — 8:04
2. 01 - The Boy and the Bayonet — 16:44
3. 02 - The Beginnings of a Mississippi School — 3:25
4. 03 - Up From Slavery: The Struggle for an Education — 7:43
5. 04 - Booker T. Washington: A Student's Memory of him — 3:43
6. 05 - Anna-Margaret — 8:23
7. 06 - Charity — 0:55
8. 07 - My First School — 13:52
9. 08 - Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes — 3:46
10. 09 - The Land of Laughter — 8:48
11. 10 - The Web of Circumstance — 1:08
12. 11 - Is the Game Worth the Candle? — 9:59
13. 12 - O Black and Unknown Bards — 3:16
14. 13 - The Greatest Menace of the South — 10:21
15. 14 - The Enchanted Shell — 2:35
16. 15 - Behind a Georgia Mule — 9:21
17. 16 - Hayti and Toussant L'Ouverture — 9:22
18. 17 - His Motto — 10:15
19. 18 - The Months — 4:30
20. 19 - The Colored Cadet at West Point — 8:08
21. 20 - An Hymn to the Evening — 1:39
22. 21 - Going to School under Difficulties — 8:17
23. 22 - The Brave Son — 1:11
24. 23 - Victory — 12:59

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