Unsung Heroes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Unsung Heroes, credited to Elizabeth Ross Haynes, 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 Unsung Heroes by Elizabeth Ross Haynes. Read in English by Jim Locke; Larry Wilson; Jill Engle; Jason in Panama; James K. White; Kathleen Flanary; Tone Cluster; tovarisch This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were "unsung." Some of them are now pretty well known while others are still, sadly, rather unrecognized. Written by Elizabeth Ross Haynes (herself a African American activist and social worker in the first half of the 20th century), her heroes include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Laurence Dunbar, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Alexandre Dumas, and many others. - Summary by kathrinee

Recording facts

• Recording title: Unsung Heroes
• Author credits: Elizabeth Ross Haynes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 5:19:35

Catalogue topics

• frederick douglass
• harriet tubman
• paul laurence dunbar
• booker t. washington
• alexander s. pushkin
• blanche kelso bruce
• samuel coleridge-taylor
• benjamin banneker

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 1:47
2. 01 - Frederick Douglass, part 1 — 21:47
3. 02 - Frederick Douglass, part 2 — 16:39
4. 03 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, part 1 — 11:35
5. 04 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, part 2 — 15:05
6. 05 - Booker Taliaferro Washington, part 1 — 12:15
7. 06 - Booker Taliaferro Washington, part 2 — 15:56
8. 07 - Harriet Tubman — 20:54
9. 08 - Alexander Sergyeyevich Pushkin — 13:47
10. 09 - Blanche Kelso Bruce — 9:28
11. 10 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, part 1 — 16:16
12. 11 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, part 2 — 15:31
13. 12 - Benjamin Banneker — 16:48
14. 13 - Phillis Wheatley — 15:16
15. 14 - Toussaint L'Ouverture — 11:12
16. 15 - Josiah Henson — 22:56
17. 16 - Sojourner Truth — 23:41
18. 17 - Crispus Attucks — 9:43
19. 18 - Alexandre Dumas — 13:00
20. 19 - Paul Cuffé — 14:00
21. 20 - Alexander Crummell — 5:25
22. 21 - John Mercer Langston — 16:34

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