The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Project Gutenberg 2010
• Subjects: Readers; North Pole; Charity; Livingstone; Dunbar; Sheppard; Frazier; Henson; DuBois; Douglass; Pendleton
• Online Access: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31456/

The boy and the bayonet / P.L. Dunbar -- Beginnings of a Mississippi school / W.H. Holtzclaw -- Up from slavery / B.T. Washington -- Booker T. Washington / W.H. Holtzclaw -- Anna-Margaret / A. Bird -- Charity / H.C. Ray -- My first school / W.E.B. DuBois -- Ere sleep comes down / P.L. Dunbar -- The land of laughter / A.W. Grimke -- The web of circumstance / C.W. Chesnutt -- Is the game worth the candle? / J.E. Shepard -- O black and unknown bards / J.W. Johnson -- The greatest menace of the south / W.J. Edwards -- The enchanted shell / H.C. Ray -- Behind a Georgia mule / J.W. Johnson -- Hayti and Toussaint L'ouverture / W.E.B. DuBois -- His motto / L.B. Dixon -- The months / H.C. Ray -- The colored cadet at West Point / H.O. Flipper -- An hymn to the evening / P. Wheatley -- Going to school under difficulties / W.H. Holtzclaw -- The brave son / A.W. Burleigh -- Victory / W.F. White -- The dog and the clever rabbit / A.O. Stafford -- The boy and the ideal / J.S. Cotter -- Children at Easter / C.E. Frazier -- Abraham Lincoln / W. Pickens -- Rondeau / J. Fauset -- How I escaped / F. Douglass -- Frederick Douglass / W.H. Crogman -- Incident in the life of Frederick Douglass -- Animal life in the Congo / W.H. Sheppard -- Cooperation and the Latin class / L.B. Witten -- The band of Gideon / J.S. Cotter, Jr. -- The home of the colored girl beautiful / A. Hackley -- The knighting of Donald / L.B. Witten -- A Negro explorer at the North Pole / M.A. Henson -- Benjamin Banneker / W.W. Brown -- The Negro race / C.W. Anderson -- Paul Cuffe / J.W. Cromwell -- The black fairy / F. Johnson -- It's a long way / W.S. Braithwaite -- Negro music that stirred France / E.J. Scott -- November 11, 1918 -- Sea lyric / W.S. Braithwaite -- A Negro woman's hospitality / L.A. Pendleton -- Record of "The old Fifteenth" in France / E.J. Scott -- Negro soldirs / R.C. Jamison -- The "Devil Bush" and the "Greegree Bush" / G.W. Ellis -- Evening prayer / H.C. Ray -- The strenuous life / S.X. Floyd -- O little David, play on your harp / J.S. Cotter, Jr. -- Day at Kalk Bay, South Africa / L.J. Coppin -- Bishop Atticus G. Haygood / W.H. Crogman -- How two colored captains fell / R.W. Tyler -- The young warrior / J.W. Johnson -- Whole regiments decorated / E.J. Scott -- On planting artichokes / D.A. Rudd and T. Bond -- A song of thanks / E.S. Jones -- Our dumb animals / S.X. Floyd -- A legend of the blue jay / R.A. Fisher -- David Livingstone / B. Brawley -- Ira Aldridge / W.J. Simmons -- Fifty years / J.W. Johnson -- A great kingdom in the Congo / W.H. Sheppard -- Pillars of the state / W.C. Jason -- Oath of Afro-American youth / K. Miller -- Notes.