Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

by Alice Dunbar Nelson

96 chapters6h 36mEnglish1920

About this book

Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson's book is seen to have peculiar significance to the colored race in America. Hers is the first attempt I have known of directly on the part of any Negro to frame a speaker composed entirely of literature produced by black men and women, and about black men and women, and embodying the finest spiritual ideals of the Negro race." And in addition, Alice Dunbar-Nelson includes some very meaningful support from some Caucasian writers. (Summary by Jim Locke)

Chapters (95)

1"The Birdlet," Alexander Poushkin

2"The Sparrow's Fall," Frances E. W. Harper

121

3"The Seedling," Paul Laurence Dunbar

4"While April Breezes Blow," D.T. Williamson

152

5"Thanksgiving," William Stanley Braithwaite

6"The Cucuya or Firefly," a Cuban slave

218

7"The Clock that Gains," the Cuban slave

8"A June Song," Charlotte Forten Grimke

160

9"A City Garden," William Stanley Braithwaite

10"De 'Lil Black Sheep," Ballarat (Australia) Chronicle

106

11"In the Morning," Paul Laurence Dunbar

154

12"Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine," Paul Laurence Dunbar

213

13"The Case of Ca'line," Paul Laurence Dunbar

451

14"Sambo's Right to Be Kilt," Private Miles O'Reilly

133

15"An Easter Symbol," Ruth McEnery Stuart

268

16"The Funal of Bruh Tony Smiff," John Riley Dungee

497

17"Tunk," James Weldon Johnnson

161

18"Uncle Ike's Roosters," Anonymous

267

19"W'en Dey 'Listed the Colored Soldiers," Paul Lawrence Dunbar

231

20"The Praline Woman," Alice Ruth Moore

324

21"Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance," Payne Erskine

1227

22"The Four Travelers," Will Carlton

203

23"The Band of Gideon," Joseph Cotter, Jr.

117

24"The White Witch," James Weldon Johnson

167

25"The Unsung Heroes," Paul Laurence Dunbar

175

26"Black Samson of Brandywine," Paul Laurence Dunbar

149

27"The Haunted Oak," Paul Laurence Dunbar

214

28"Ode to Ethiopia," Paul Laurence Dunbar

165

29from "The Finish of Patsy Barnes," Paul Laurence Dunbar

230

30"Prophecy," Reverdy C. Ransom

135

31"Hear, O Church," E.A. Long

148

32"Dessalines," William Edgar Easton

366

33"The Sisters," Charles W. Chesnutt

625

34"Modern Christmas on the Plantation," William E. Burghardt DuBois

519

35"The Farewell," John G. Whittier

212

36"How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury

344

37"The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont

256

38"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," Walt Whitman

106

39"The African Chief," William Cullen Bryant

192

40"The Black Man's Burden," John White Chadwick

159

41"The Lights at Carney's Point," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

175

42"It's Me O Lord," Alma and Paul Ellerbe

220

43"How France Received the Negro Soldiers," Emmett J. Scott

331

44"How Jim Europe and His Jazz Outfit Broke into the War," Charles Welton

352

45"The Stevedores," Ellen Wheeler Wilcox

122

46"Shall I Say, 'My Son You Are Branded'," Georgia Douglas Johnson

47"In Flanders Fields--an Echo," Orlando C. W. Taylor

48"I Sit and Sew," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

112

49"The Lynchers," Madison Cawein

100

50"Ku Klux," Madison Cawein

129

51"The Second Louisiana May 27,1863," George H. Boker

207

52"To Canaan," Oliver Wendall Holmes

174

53"The Hero of Fort Wagner," Phoebe Cary

152

54"Bury Them--Wagner, July 18, 1863," Henry Howard Brownell

154

55"Whether White or Black, A Man," Edith Smith Davis

397

56Ethiopian Maid," Walter Everette Hawkins

57"Mat," D. Webster Davis

123

58"Belgium," Lester B. Granger

122

59"Laus Deo," John Greenleaf Whittier

141

60"O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson

203

61"The Young Warrior," E. Stoutenburg

222

62"Mine Eyes Have Seen," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

987

63"Winter Morning," Alexander Poushkin

110

64"Winter Evening," Alexander Poushkin

114

65"Friendship," Alexander Poushkin

66"The Bard," Alexander Poushkin

67"Frederick Douglass," Charles H. Chipman

501

68"A Negro's Rebuke," Rosco Conkling Simmons

167

69"Ask Our Constitutional Rights Now," Clayton Powell

357

70"The Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass

504

71"Lincoln and Douglass," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

608

72"The Better Part," Booker T. Washington

384

73"After Emancipation--Suffrage," Thaddeus Stevens

282

74"Memorial Day in the South," "Jack Thorne" (David B. Fulton)

406

75"Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips

333

76"Abraham Lincoln," Frederick Douglass

734

77"Fort Wagner," Anna E. Dickinson

335

78"The Boys of Howard School," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.

271

79"The Mulatto to His Critics," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr

80"Negro Music," Emmett J. Scott

254

81"Crispus Attucks," George L. Ruffin

302

82"Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863," Abraham Lincoln

290

83"To the Negro Farmers of the United States," Alice Dunbar-Nelson

84"Toussaint L'Ouverture," William Wordsworth

85"Toussaint L'Ouverture," John G. Whittier

641

86"Chalmette, Memorial Day," Alice Ruth Moore

222

87"His Excellency, George Washington, 1775," Phyllis Wheatley

179

88"Abraham Lincoln," David B. Fulton (Jack Thorne)

241

89"Charles Sumner," Charlotte Forten Grimke

146

90"Crispus Attucks," Rev. George C. Rowe

193

91"Nat Turner," T. Thomas Fortune

142

92"Emancipation," D. Webster Davis

398

93"Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson

294

94"Booker T. Washington," John Riley Dungee

149

95"Booker T. Washington," Theodore Roosevelt

182

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