Artist: Various Artists

Title: Black American History / Various

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070580428

Genre: African, Folk

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Blacks with the Spanish Explorers
2. Black Valor
3. Black Sailors
4. Black Archives
5. Ballad of Benjamin Banneker
6. African Chants/Oh Freedom
7. Go Down Moses/John Brown's Body/Legacy
8. Election of Lincoln/Lincoln and Libery
9. Secession of the South/Bonnie Blue Flag
10. Civil War
11. Emancipation Proclamation
12. Negro Troops
13. In Charleston Jail/Douglass Meets Lincoln
14. Death of Lincoln/Freedom and Equality
15. Old Rebel/14Th and 15th Amendments
16. Ballad of Sojourner Truth
17. Ballad of Harriet Tubman
18. Francis Watkins Harper
19. Ida B. Wells Barnett
20. Eleanor Holmes Norton
21. Shirley Chisholm

DISC 2:
1. Ballad of Frederick Douglass
2. Booker T Washington/George Washington Carver
3. Let's Move It/W.E.B. Dubois
4. If We Must Die
5. Ballad of the Deacons
6. The Negro Voter/The State of Arkansas
7. President Kennedy's Press Conference
8. Rev. Ralph Abernathy
9. Martin Luther King/Ballad of Dr. King/We Shall Overcome

Performed by Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Jean Brannon, W.E.B. DuBois, and Pete Seeger, this collection of spoken word, oral history, speech and song represents a comprehensive sociopolitical history of black America. Beginning with America's rediscovery in 1492 and Columbus's supposedly black pilot, Pedro Alonso Ni+¦o, the collection covers the colonial period, the slave experience, the Civil war, notable African-American women, nineteenth-century black intellectuals, the Jim Crow years and the struggle for civil rights, ending with the late Martin Luther King Jr.