Voices of Black America

This was an incredible listen, one to go back to again and again. The sonorous phrasing of James Wheldon Johnson reading God’s Trombones is something every student of language or music should hear. Langston Hughes reads his own poetry, which ranges widely from folksy spiritual to deep introspection.......more

A lot of the recordings were pretty poor and difficult to understand through all the static. My favorite recording was the first of Booker T. Washigton’s speech about casting down your bucket here mainly because I didn’t know there were any recordings of him!! After reading his work, it was surreal......more

ppld.org: Booker Washington, 1856-1915, VA Normal & Ag Inst and Tuskegee Normal & Ind Inst 81, Booker's controversial conviction that blacks could best gain equality in the U.S. by improving their economic situation through education rather than by demanding equal rights was termed the Atlanta Compr......more

I really just wanted to listen to Langston Hughes on this audiobook. Unfortunately, there was only one recording of him reading one poem on the whole audiobook. Most of the rest of it was, as you might imagine given the time period, low quality recordings that were hard to follow. In addition to tha......more

Although titled as humorous stories, you can still tell the truth besides the words and dialect more-so Shakespearian. It was definitely a good listen.......more