Remembering Jim Crow

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Frederick Douglass
• Narrated By Charles Turner

Great African American Literary Voices

• ORIGINAL (10 mins)
• By Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and others
• Narrated By Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and others

Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works: Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; Arna Bontemps, "Nocturne At Bethesda"; Countee Cullen, "Heritage"; Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Vacant Lot"; and Sonia Sanchez, "Black Magic".

The Souls of Black Folk

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 49 mins)
• By W.E.B. Dubois
• Narrated By Walter Covell
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

W.E.B. Du Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise, The Souls of Black Folk, "for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line", a prescient statement. Setting out to show to the reader "the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the twentieth century," Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race.

Race Matters

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs)
• By Cornel West
• Narrated By Cornel West