THE GLORY OF NEGRO HISTORY

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Label
FOLKWAYS RECORDS
Release Date
May 30, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      HUGHES, LANGSTON
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 30, 2012
    • UPC
      093070775220
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FOWY7752.2
    • LABEL
      FOLKWAYS RECORDS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      World & International
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I - The Struggle: The Struggle

      Composer: Traditional

    2. Part I - The Struggle: Negroes with the Spanish Explorers

      Composer: Traditional

    3. Part I - The Struggle: African Chant

      Composer: Traditional

    4. Part I - The Struggle: Phyllis Wheatley

      Composer: Traditional

    5. Part I - The Struggle: Oh Freedom

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Leon Bibb

    6. Part I - The Struggle: Sojourner Truth

      Composer: Traditional

    7. Part I - The Struggle: Steal Away

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Hilda Haynes

    8. Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman

      Composer: Traditional

    9. Part I - The Struggle: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Hilda Haynes

    10. Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman, pt. 2

      Composer: Traditional

    11. Part I - The Struggle: Old Riley

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Huddie Lead Belly Ledbetter

    12. Part I - The Struggle: Frederick Douglass

      Composer: Traditional

    13. Part I - The Struggle: Go Down Moses

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Clark Morgan

    14. Part I - The Struggle: John Brown

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Hermes Nye

    15. Part I - The Struggle: John Brown's Body

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Hermes Nye

    16. Part I - The Struggle: Battle Hymn of the Republic

      Composer: William Steffe

      Performer: Brownie McGhee

    17. Part I - The Struggle: Abraham Lincoln

      Composer: Traditional

    18. Part II- The Glory: The Glory- Walt Whitman

      Composer: Traditional

    19. Part II- The Glory: Reconstruction

      Composer: Traditional

    20. Part II - The Glory: Trouble in Mind

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Bertha "Chippie" Hill

    21. Part II- The Glory: Booker T. Washington

      Composer: Traditional

    22. Part II- The Glory: George Washington Carver

      Composer: Traditional

    23. Part II - The Glory: Dallas Rag

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Dallas String Band

    24. Part II - The Glory: Little Brown Baby

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Paul Laurence Dunbar

    25. Part II - The Glory: I'm Not Rough

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Louis Armstrong

    26. Part II- The Glory: World War I

      Composer: Traditional

    27. Part II - The Glory: If We Must Die

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Claude McKay

    28. Part II- The Glory: NAACP Founding and Activities

      Composer: Traditional

    29. Part II - The Glory: Organ Grinder's Swing

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ella Fitzgerald

    30. Part II - The Glory: Ralph Bunche

      Composer: Traditional

    31. Part II- The Glory: Mary McLeod Bethune

      Composer: Traditional

    32. Part II - The Glory: Battle Hymn of the Republic

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: George D. McClain


In this collection of prose and song, Langston Hughes narrates the history of the African-American people. Beginning with the struggles associated with slavery and punctuated with African chants and freedom songs sung by Brownie McGhee, Hilda Haynes and Leadbelly, Hughes imparts the glory and triumphs of African-Americans, which include the accomplishments of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, the founding of the NAACP, the sporting legends Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis and the music of William Grant and Ella Fitzgerald.