Lamp of Wisdom
William H. Councill
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William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. This book written in a question and answer format is his view of the history or the “Negro Race” from Africa through slavery in the United States, and accomplishments after emancipation, and all fields of culture through near the end of the 19th Century. - Summary by Larry Wilson (4 hr 45 min)
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| Dedication, Preface and Publisher's Announcement | 2:58 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Africa | 7:17 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro | 5:52 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Slavery | 13:55 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Slavery Abolished | 5:48 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| A Marble Shaft to the Memory of the Memory of Faithful Slaves | 1:56 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Population | 8:00 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Our Race Name | 5:10 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Financial Growth | 3:58 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The White South and Negro Education | 6:33 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| What Negro Education Has Done for the South Since the War | 2:46 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| What Benevolence Has Done for Negro Education | 1:51 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Schools | 14:38 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Deceased Race Leaders | 1:48 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Negro as a Soldier | 9:13 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Education During the Rebellion | 2:37 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negroes in Federal Offices | 8:29 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Members of Congress | 3:47 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Lawyers | 4:29 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Physicians | 4:50 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Negro in Dentistry | 4:20 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Afro-American Authors | 16:54 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| ''The Dying Bondman" | 2:37 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Great Words of a Great Man | 3:54 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Best Thoughts of Negro Leaders | 16:38 | Gelesen von Andrew Kennedy |
| The Negro Press | 4:50 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Representative Negro Editors | 1:53 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Women Writers of Distinction | 2:37 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Stage | 7:26 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Insurance | 4:18 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Banks | 1:14 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Sanitatariums and Hospital | 2:56 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Homes for the Negro Homeless | 5:59 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Artists | 1:20 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Baptist Church | 4:00 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| African Methodist Episcopal Church | 3:19 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | 2:58 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| C. M. E. Church in America | 2:11 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Presbyterian Chuch and the Negro | 2:06 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Cumberland Presbyterians | 1:11 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Underground Railroad | 2:20 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows in America | 8:01 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Scottish Rite Negro Masons | 13:42 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Independent Order Immaculate | 1:47 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Order of Twelve | 3:28 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Negro Pythian Knights | 1:44 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Benevolent Order of Colored Professionals | 0:51 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Y.M.C.A. Work | 1:10 | Gelesen von RickHall |
| Miscellaneous Race Facts | 37:13 | Gelesen von RickHall |
| Greatest Things on Earth | 6:44 | Gelesen von RickHall |