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    Langston Hughes The Glory Of Negro History (1955)

    Smithsonian Folkways
    • Langston Hughes – The Struggle
    • 1. Langston Hughes – The Struggle
    • 2. Langston Hughes – Negroes with the Spanish Explorers
    • 3. Langston Hughes – African Chant
    • 4. Langston Hughes – Phyllis Wheatley
    • 5. Leon Bibb – Oh Freedom
    • 6. Langston Hughes – Sojourner Truth
    • 7. Hilda Haynes – Steal Away
    • 8. Langston Hughes – Harriet Tubman
    • 9. Hilda Haynes – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
    • 10. Langston Hughes – Harriet Tubman, Pt. II
    • 11. Langston Hughes and Leadbelly – Old Riley
    • 12. Langston Hughes – Frederick Douglass
    • 13. Clark Morgan – Go Down Moses
    • 14. Hermes Nye – John Brown
    • 15. Hermes Nye – John Brown's Body
    • 16. Brownie McGhee – Battle Hymn of The Republic
    • 17. Langston Hughes – Abraham Lincoln
    • 18. Langston Hughes – Walt Whitman
    • 19. Langston Hughes – Reconstruction
    • 20. Bertha Chippie Hill – Trouble In Mind
    • 21. Langston Hughes – Booker T. Washington
    • 22. Langston Hughes – George Washington Carver
    • 23. Dallas String Band – Dallas Rag
    • 24. Paul Laurence Dunbar – Little Brown Baby
    • 25. Louis Armstrong – I'm Not Rough
    • 26. Langston Hughes – World War I
    • 27. Claude McKay – If We Must Die
    • 28. Langston Hughes – NAACP Founding and Activities
    • 29. Ella Fitzgerald – Organ Grinder's Swing
    • 30. Langston Hughes – Ralph Bunche
    • 31. Langston Hughes – Mary McLeod Bethune
    • 32. George D. McCain – Battle Hymn of the Republic

    The history of Black life as told by the great poet and writer Langston Hughes.

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