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1. Struggle, The - Langston Hughes
2. Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
3. Complaint Call - Enoch Brown
4. Intro and Kneebone Bend - Lawrencs McKiver/Doretha Skipper
5. Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas - Rich Manuel "Rich" Am
6. Jack and Mary and Three Dogs - Mrs. Janie Hunter
7. Buck Dance - Joe Tucker
8. I'm Goin' up North - Children Of East York School
9. Pharaoh's Host Got Lost - Lawrencs McKiver
10. Bars Fight - Lucy Terry
11. Earl of Datrmouth - Phillis Wheatley
12. I Wonder Where My Brother Gone - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
13. Narrative - Harriet Tubman
14. Speech at Akron Convention - Sojourner Truth
15. Singing Slaves - Frederick Douglass
16. Steal Away to Jesus - Kinsey West
17. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Frederick Douglass
18. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant? - Sarah Parker
19. Free at Last - Dock Read & Vera Hall Ward
20. When Malindy Sings - Paul Laurence Dunbar
21. There's a Great Camp Meeting - Fisk University Jubilee Singers
22. Atlanta Exposition Address - Booker T. Washington
23. John Henry - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
24. Banjo Player - Fenton Johnson
25. Boatman Dance - Elizabeth Cotten
26. Shine - Percy Randolph
27. Chopping in the New Ground - Inmates Of Ramsey
28. Lynching, Our National Crime - Ida B Wells-Barnett
29. Recorded Autobiography, A - W.E.B. Du Bois
30. Listen Lord, A Prayer - James Weldon Johnson
31. My Heart Is Fixed - Rev. Gary Davis
32. Titanic, The - Leadbelly
33. Heritage - Countee Cullen
34. Jungle Drums - James P. Johnson
1. No More Auction Block - Paul Robeson
2. Negro Speaks of Rivers, The - Langston Hughes
3. If We Must Die - Claude McKay
4. Ma Rainey - Sterling A. Brown
5. Backwater Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
6. Married Man Blues - Billie & De De Pierce
7. For My People - Margaret Walker
8. Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2, The - Gwendolyn Brooks
9. Body and Soul - George Big Nick Nicholas
10. How He Delivered Me - Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones
11. Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters
12. Cry to Me - Solomon Burke
13. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - The SNCC Freedom Singers
14. Brimingham 1963 (Keep Moving) - Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. Black Panther Party Platform - Bobby Seale
16. Interview (Excerpt) - Angela Davis
17. Together to the Tune of Coltrane's Equinox - Sarah Webster Fabio
18. Nikki-Rosa - Nikki Giovanni
19. Liberation / Poem - Sonia Sanchez
20. Dope - Amiri Baraka
21. Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059, The - Hamiet Bluiett
22. For the Poets - Jayne Cortez
23. Shotgun Joe - Golden Eagels
24. St. Louis Woman - Ishmael Reed
25. People Everday - Arrested Development
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This double CD draws upon the collection at the Smithsonian Folkways archive to create a history of African American life and culture in sound- an aural history. Encompassing both the African American oral and literary traditions, these 59 tracks feature an unparalleled assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by historically renowned African American musicians, writers, and activists. The sounds collected here are testimony to the power, creativity, and resilience of Black expressive forms that have received recognition throughout the world.
