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A People in Flight: African Americans in Movement

Smithsonian

1 The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 0:46

2 Bapende Xylophone Unspecified 0:58

3 African Background Willis James 1:00

4 Sunjata (Sauta Tuning) Foday Musa Suso 6:36

5 Jula Jekere (Hardino Tuning) Foday Musa Suso 6:06

6 Sembelu Serrehule flutist, drummers, female dancers 4:23

7 Escape (con't.) Ossie Davis 4:25

8 The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Law Ossie Davis 4:16

9 The North Star Ossie Davis 2:08

10 Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman Langston Hughes 2:01

11 Free Soil Convention Ossie Davis 2:00

12 Drinking Gourd,The Child Development Group of Mississippi 3:30

13 Part I - The Struggle: Sojourner Truth Langston Hughes 3:06

14 Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman, Pt. 2 Langston Hughes 0:38

15 Guide My Feet While I Run This Race Dock Reese 2:15

16 Civil War Ossie Davis 2:48

17 Negro Troops Ossie Davis 2:22

18 Emancipation Proclamation Ossie Davis 1:33

19 Prayer Meeting Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church (Bogue Chito, Miss.) 2:03

20 Steal Away to Jesus Kinsey West 1:54

21 Travelling Shoes Vera Hall Ward 1:43

22 Prayer Dock Reed Vera Hall Ward 2:41

23 Move Members Move Rosie Hibler and family 2:03

24 Wade the Water to My Knees The McIntosh County Shouters 1:12

25 Walk with Me McIntosh County Shouters 4:41

26 There is a Balm in Gilead The Florida A&M University Concert Choir 5:54

27 Go in the Wilderness The Princely Players 3:47

28 Listen to the Lambs The Howard University Chamber Choir 5:20

29 Balm in Gilead Beverly Green 1:19

30 Old King Cotton Sterling Brown 1:20

31 Go Down, Old Hannah Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas 5:26

32 Old Lem Sterling Brown 2:14

33 Sharecropper Sterling Brown 1:56

34 Long Gone Sterling Brown 1:18

35 Takin' Names Paul Robeson Alan Booth 2:34

36 If We Must Die Claude McKay 1:00

37 Back Water Blues (with James P. Johnson) Bessie Smith With James P. Johnson 3:15

38 One O'Clock Jump Count Basie 3:47

39 N.A.A.C.P. W.E.B. DuBois 2:13

40 Harlem Congo Chick Webb His Orchestra 3:15

41 Harlem Parlor Bluese Sammy Price 2:51

42 The Crisis W.E.B. DuBois 2:57

43 Long, Long Ago (Apple Tree) Art Tatum Trio 2:42

44 Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra 3:02

45 Ko-Ko Duke Ellington His Orchestra 2:40

46 Tribute to Duke Ellington Sarah Webster Fabio 6:30

47 Manteca Dizzy Gillespie 3:07

48 Daahoud Clifford Brown Max Roach Quintet 4:05

49 Boplicity (Remastered) Miles Davis 3:02

50 Groovin' High Dizzy Gillespie 2:43

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