The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer


Read by Jim Locke

(5 stars; 2 reviews)

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)

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Forward and Introduction 8:28 Read by Jim Locke
"The Birdlet," Alexander Poushkin 1:14 Read by Jim Locke
"The Sparrow's Fall," Frances E. W. Harper 2:01 Read by Jim Locke
"The Seedling," Paul Laurence Dunbar 1:31 Read by Jim Locke
"While April Breezes Blow," D.T. Williamson 2:32 Read by Jim Locke
"Thanksgiving," William Stanley Braithwaite 1:14 Read by Jim Locke
"The Cucuya or Firefly," a Cuban slave 3:38 Read by Jim Locke
"The Clock that Gains," the Cuban slave 0:59 Read by Jim Locke
"A June Song," Charlotte Forten Grimke 2:40 Read by Jim Locke
"A City Garden," William Stanley Braithwaite 1:19 Read by Jim Locke
"De 'Lil Black Sheep," Ballarat (Australia) Chronicle 1:46 Read by Jim Locke
"In the Morning," Paul Laurence Dunbar 2:34 Read by Jim Locke
"Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine," Paul Laurence Dunbar 3:33 Read by Jim Locke
"The Case of Ca'line," Paul Laurence Dunbar 7:31 Read by Jim Locke
"Sambo's Right to Be Kilt," Private Miles O'Reilly 2:13 Read by Jim Locke
"An Easter Symbol," Ruth McEnery Stuart 4:28 Read by Jim Locke
"The Funal of Bruh Tony Smiff," John Riley Dungee 8:17 Read by Jim Locke
"Tunk," James Weldon Johnnson 2:41 Read by Jim Locke
"Uncle Ike's Roosters," Anonymous 4:27 Read by Jim Locke
"W'en Dey 'Listed the Colored Soldiers," Paul Lawrence Dunbar 3:51 Read by Jim Locke
"The Praline Woman," Alice Ruth Moore 5:24 Read by Jim Locke
"Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance," Payne Erskine 20:27 Read by Jim Locke
"The Four Travelers," Will Carlton 3:23 Read by Jim Locke
"The Band of Gideon," Joseph Cotter, Jr. 1:57 Read by Jim Locke
"The White Witch," James Weldon Johnson 2:47 Read by Jim Locke
"The Unsung Heroes," Paul Laurence Dunbar 2:55 Read by Jim Locke
"Black Samson of Brandywine," Paul Laurence Dunbar 2:29 Read by Jim Locke
"The Haunted Oak," Paul Laurence Dunbar 3:34 Read by Jim Locke
"Ode to Ethiopia," Paul Laurence Dunbar 2:45 Read by Jim Locke
from "The Finish of Patsy Barnes," Paul Laurence Dunbar 3:50 Read by Jim Locke
"Prophecy," Reverdy C. Ransom 2:15 Read by Jim Locke
"Hear, O Church," E.A. Long 2:28 Read by Jim Locke
"Dessalines," William Edgar Easton 6:06 Read by Jim Locke
"The Sisters," Charles W. Chesnutt 10:25 Read by Jim Locke
"Modern Christmas on the Plantation," William E. Burghardt DuBois 8:39 Read by Jim Locke
"The Farewell," John G. Whittier 3:32 Read by Jim Locke
"How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury 5:44 Read by Jim Locke
"The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont 4:16 Read by Jim Locke
"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," Walt Whitman 1:46 Read by Jim Locke
"The African Chief," William Cullen Bryant 3:12 Read by Jim Locke
"The Black Man's Burden," John White Chadwick 2:39 Read by Jim Locke
"The Lights at Carney's Point," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 2:55 Read by Jim Locke
"It's Me O Lord," Alma and Paul Ellerbe 3:40 Read by Jim Locke
"How France Received the Negro Soldiers," Emmett J. Scott 5:31 Read by Jim Locke
"How Jim Europe and His Jazz Outfit Broke into the War," Charles Welton 5:52 Read by Jim Locke
"The Stevedores," Ellen Wheeler Wilcox 2:02 Read by Jim Locke
"Shall I Say, 'My Son You Are Branded'," Georgia Douglas Johnson 1:24 Read by Jim Locke
"In Flanders Fields--an Echo," Orlando C. W. Taylor 1:33 Read by Jim Locke
"I Sit and Sew," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1:52 Read by Jim Locke
"The Lynchers," Madison Cawein 1:40 Read by Jim Locke
"Ku Klux," Madison Cawein 2:09 Read by Jim Locke
"The Second Louisiana May 27,1863," George H. Boker 3:27 Read by Jim Locke
"To Canaan," Oliver Wendall Holmes 2:54 Read by Jim Locke
"The Hero of Fort Wagner," Phoebe Cary 2:32 Read by Jim Locke
"Bury Them--Wagner, July 18, 1863," Henry Howard Brownell 2:34 Read by Jim Locke
"Whether White or Black, A Man," Edith Smith Davis 6:37 Read by Jim Locke
Ethiopian Maid," Walter Everette Hawkins 1:34 Read by Jim Locke
"Mat," D. Webster Davis 2:03 Read by Jim Locke
"Belgium," Lester B. Granger 2:02 Read by Jim Locke
"Laus Deo," John Greenleaf Whittier 2:21 Read by Jim Locke
"O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson 3:23 Read by Jim Locke
"The Young Warrior," E. Stoutenburg 3:42 Read by Jim Locke
"Mine Eyes Have Seen," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 16:27 Read by Jim Locke
"Winter Morning," Alexander Poushkin 1:50 Read by Jim Locke
"Winter Evening," Alexander Poushkin 1:54 Read by Jim Locke
"Friendship," Alexander Poushkin 0:33 Read by Jim Locke
"The Bard," Alexander Poushkin 1:04 Read by Jim Locke
"Frederick Douglass," Charles H. Chipman 8:21 Read by Jim Locke
"A Negro's Rebuke," Rosco Conkling Simmons 2:47 Read by Jim Locke
"Ask Our Constitutional Rights Now," Clayton Powell 5:57 Read by Jim Locke
"The Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass 8:24 Read by Jim Locke
"Lincoln and Douglass," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 10:08 Read by Jim Locke
"The Better Part," Booker T. Washington 6:24 Read by Jim Locke
"After Emancipation--Suffrage," Thaddeus Stevens 4:42 Read by Jim Locke
"Memorial Day in the South," "Jack Thorne" (David B. Fulton) 6:46 Read by Jim Locke
"Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips 5:33 Read by Jim Locke
"Abraham Lincoln," Frederick Douglass 12:14 Read by Jim Locke
"Fort Wagner," Anna E. Dickinson 5:35 Read by Jim Locke
"The Boys of Howard School," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. 4:31 Read by Jim Locke
"The Mulatto to His Critics," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr 1:05 Read by Jim Locke
"Negro Music," Emmett J. Scott 4:14 Read by Jim Locke
"Crispus Attucks," George L. Ruffin 5:02 Read by Jim Locke
"Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863," Abraham Lincoln 4:50 Read by Jim Locke
"To the Negro Farmers of the United States," Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1:29 Read by Jim Locke
"Toussaint L'Ouverture," William Wordsworth 1:18 Read by Jim Locke
"Toussaint L'Ouverture," John G. Whittier 10:41 Read by Jim Locke
"Chalmette, Memorial Day," Alice Ruth Moore 3:42 Read by Jim Locke
"His Excellency, George Washington, 1775," Phyllis Wheatley 2:59 Read by Jim Locke
"Abraham Lincoln," David B. Fulton (Jack Thorne) 4:01 Read by Jim Locke
"Charles Sumner," Charlotte Forten Grimke 2:26 Read by Jim Locke
"Crispus Attucks," Rev. George C. Rowe 3:13 Read by Jim Locke
"Nat Turner," T. Thomas Fortune 2:22 Read by Jim Locke
"Emancipation," D. Webster Davis 6:38 Read by Jim Locke
"Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson 4:54 Read by Jim Locke
"Booker T. Washington," John Riley Dungee 2:29 Read by Jim Locke
"Booker T. Washington," Theodore Roosevelt 3:02 Read by Jim Locke