| Description |
2 sound discs (2.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Notes |
Unabridged. |
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Recorded by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin. Text c1998. |
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Compact discs. |
| Contents |
I, too, sing America / Langston Hughes -- Bars fight / Lucy Terry -- Liberty and peace / Phillis Wheatley -- On liberty and slavery / George Moses Horton -- Yes! Strike again that sounding string / James M. Whitfield -- Bury me in a free land / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The song of the smoke / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Lift ev'ry voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The black finger / Angelina Weld Grimk\AN226\e -- Your world/Interracial / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Children of the sun / Fenton Johnson -- If we must die/The white house / Claude McKay -- Beehive / Jean Toomer -- Heritage/To a dark girl / Gwendolyn Bennett -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Harlem/The Negro speaks of rivers/Merry-go-round/Cross / Langston Hughes -- Tableau/Saturday's child/Incident / Countee Cullen -- Sorrow home / Margaret Walker -- Martin Luther King Jr./Malcolm X ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Rites of passage / Audre Lorde -- In the year / Amiri Baraka -- The funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Nikki Giovanni -- Women / Alice Walker -- Primer / Rita Dove. |
| Credits |
Executive producer, H. Frederick; assistant producer, Melissa Hughes. |
| Performer |
Performed by Ashley Bryan and Renee Joshua-Porter. |
| Summary |
A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker. |
| Sujet |
Children's poetry, American -- African American authors.
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Afro-Americans -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- African American authors -- Collections.
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| Autre Auteur |
Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
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Bryan, Ashley.
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Joshua-Porter, Renee.
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| ISBN |
1883332575 : |
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