The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race." This reader from 1920 is a collection of writings by an impressive line-up of African-American writers, activists, and educators. "It is the hope that this little book will find a large welcome in all sections of the country and will bring good cheer and encouragement to the young readers who have so largely the fortunes of their race in their own hands." - Summary by kathrinee and the editors. (6 hr 32 min)
Chapters
| Forword and Introduction | 8:04 | Read by Diana Schmidt |
| The Boy and the Bayonet | 16:44 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Beginnings of a Mississippi School | 3:25 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Up From Slavery: The Struggle for an Education | 7:43 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Booker T. Washington: A Student's Memory of him | 3:43 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Anna-Margaret | 8:23 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Charity | 0:55 | Read by Jim Locke |
| My First School | 13:52 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes | 3:46 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Land of Laughter | 8:48 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Web of Circumstance | 1:08 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Is the Game Worth the Candle? | 9:59 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| O Black and Unknown Bards | 3:16 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Greatest Menace of the South | 10:21 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Enchanted Shell | 2:35 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Behind a Georgia Mule | 9:22 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Hayti and Toussant L'Ouverture | 9:22 | Read by Jim Locke |
| His Motto | 10:15 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Months | 4:30 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Colored Cadet at West Point | 8:08 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| An Hymn to the Evening | 1:39 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Going to School under Difficulties | 8:17 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Brave Son | 1:11 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Victory | 12:59 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Dog and the Clever Rabbit | 3:40 | Read by Kalynda |
| The Boy and the Ideal | 3:36 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Children at Easter | 1:57 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Abraham Lincoln | 5:22 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Rondeau | 1:17 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| How I Escaped | 12:21 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Frederick Douglass | 10:05 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Incident in the Life of Frederick Douglass | 2:18 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Animal Life in the Congo | 11:36 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Co-operation and the Latin Class | 7:46 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Band of Gideon | 2:12 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful | 4:54 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Knighting of Donald | 8:31 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| A Negro Explorer at the North Pole | 12:36 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Benjamin Banneker | 4:49 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Negro Race | 1:10 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Paul Cuffe | 10:45 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Black Fairy | 9:01 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| It's a Long Way | 1:07 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Negro Music that Stirred France | 9:23 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| November 11, 1918 | 3:00 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Sea Lyric | 1:05 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| A Negro Woman's Hospitality | 4:11 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Record of "The Old Fifteenth" in France | 2:41 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Negro Soldiers | 1:30 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The "Devil Bush" and the "Greegree Bush" | 5:42 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Evening Prayer | 1:16 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Strenuous Life | 4:01 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| O Little David, Play on your Harp | 1:09 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| A Day at Kalk Bay, South Africa | 4:18 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Bishop Atticus G. Haygood | 2:42 | Read by Jim Locke |
| How Two Colored Captains Fell | 2:15 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| The Young Warrior | 1:22 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Whole Regiments Decorated | 1:08 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| On Planting Artichokes: From the Life of Scott Bond | 6:36 | Read by Jim Locke |
| A Song of Thanks | 3:22 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Our Dumb Animals | 2:32 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| A Legend of the Blue Jay | 3:41 | Read by Jim Locke |
| David Livingstone | 6:21 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Ira Aldridge | 6:50 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Fifty Years: 1863-1913 | 5:35 | Read by Jim Locke |
| A Great Kingdom in the Congo | 25:00 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Pillars of the State | 1:16 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
| Oath of Afro-American Youth | 1:48 | Read by Matthew Datcher |