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