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The View from the End of the World: Live Interviews of Life in Prison with James Carr
James Carr
1975
What if I am a Woman?, Vol. 1: Black Women's Speeches
Ruby Dee
1977
The Negro Woman
Dorothy Washington
1966
It's Story Telling Time
Linda Goss
1983
Letter to Young Sisters and Other Poems by Nancy Dupree
Nancy Dupree
1979
Socialism and the American Negro
W.E.B. DuBois
1960
Street and Gangland Rhythms, Beats and Improvisations by Six Boys in Trouble
1959
Huey!: Listen Whitey!
Huey P. Newton
1972
We Shall Overcome: Documentary of the March on Washington
1963
Margaret Walker Alexander Reads Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes
Margaret Walker
1975
Every Tone a Testimony
2001
The Story of Greenwood, Mississippi
1965
Margaret Walker Reads Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes
Margaret Walker
1975
The Poetry of Sterling Brown
Sterling Brown
1995
A Voice Ringing O'er the Gale! The Oratory of Frederick Douglass Read by Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis
2009
Black American History in Ballad, Song & Prose
1977
Afro-American Tales and Games
Linda Goss
1980
Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2
Ossie Davis
1966
The Nashville Sit-in Story: Songs and Scenes of Nashville Lunch Counter Desegregation (by the Sit-In Participants)
1960
Jujus/Alchemy of the Blues: Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio
Sarah Webster Fabio
1976
Poesie de la Negritude: Léon Damas Reads Selected Poems from Pigments, Graffiti, Black Label, and Nevralgies
Léon-Gontran Damas
1967
Sterling Brown and Langston Hughes
Sterling Brown and Langston Hughes
1952
Field to Factory- Voices of the Great Migration: Recalling the African American Migration to the Northern Cities
Spencer Crew
1994
The Poetry of Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker
1975
Echoes of Timbuktu and Beyond in Congo Square, U.S.A.
Bilal Abdurahman
1979
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Fannie Lou Hamer
2015
Anthology of Negro Poetry
1954
Feelings of Love not Yet Expressed: An Album of Poetry by the Neo Black Women in Poetry
China Clark, Jo-Anne McKnight, and Amirh Bahati
1976
Huey Newton Speaks
Huey P. Newton
1970
God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson
Bryce Bond
1965
Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A.- 200 Years
Arna Bontemps
1955
From the Cold Jaws of Prison
1971
Here I Stand: Elders' Wisdom, Children's Song
1996
Blacks in the American Revolutionary War
Jean Marilyn Brannon
1974
Sweet Thunder: Black Poetry by Nancy Dupree
Nancy Dupree
1977
Frederick Douglass' Speeches inc. The Dred Scott Decision
Ossie Davis
1977
A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry
Sonia Sanchez
1971
Lest We Forget, Vol. 1: Movement Soul, Sounds of the Freedom Movement in the South, 1963-64
1980
Lest We Forget, Vol. 3: Sing For Freedom
1980
The Glory of Negro History
Langston Hughes
1955
Booker T's Child and Portia, Booker T. Washington Address, 1895
Roy L. Hill
1977
W.E.B. DuBois: A Recorded Autobiography, Interview with Moses Asch
W.E.B. DuBois
1961
The Voice of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
1995
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Nikki Giovanni
1978
His Story- Big Bill Broonzy Interviewed by Studs Terkel
Big Bill Broonzy
1957
The Reason I Like Chocolate
Nikki Giovanni
1976
Black Drama with Barbara Ann Teer and Charlie L. Russell
1973
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap
2021
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Voices of Struggle: The Civil Rights movement, 1945 to 1965
2009
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Eugene Allen
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Eugene Allen (White House Maître D’) Discusses White House Experiences
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Ella Jenkins Interview
Ella Jenkins
2006
Eugene Allen (White House Maître D’) Discusses First Lady Nancy Reagan
Eugene Allen
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Songs, Sounds and Stories from the Georgia Sea Islands
2010
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