The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
Transcriber's Note
To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and aspirations of their race. Realizing this lack, Myron T. Pritchard, Principal of the Everett School, Boston, and Mary White Ovington, Chairman of the Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, have brought together poems, stories, sketches and addresses which bear eloquent testimony to the richness of the literary product of our Negro writers. It is the hope that this little book will find a large welcome in all sections of the country and will bring good cheer and encouragement to the young readers who have so largely the fortunes of their race in their own hands.
The editors desire to express thanks to the authors who have generously granted the use of their work. Especial acknowledgement is due to Mrs. Booker T. Washington for the selection from Up from Slavery ; to The Crisis for The Rondeau, by Jessie Fauset, The Brave Son, by Alston W. Burleigh, The Black Fairy, by Fenton Johnson, The Children at Easter, by C. Emily Frazier, His Motto, by Lottie B. Dixon, Negro Soldiers, by Roscoe C. Jamison, A Legend of the Blue Jay, by Ruth Anna Fisher; to the American Book Company for The Dog and the Clever Rabbit, from Animal Tales , by A. O. Stafford; to Frederick A. Stokes and Company for A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, by Matthew A. Henson; to A. C. McClurg and Company for the selection from Souls of Black Folk , by W. E. B. DuBois; to Henry Holt and Company for the selection from The Negro , by W. E. B. DuBois; to the Cornhill Company for the selections from The Band of Gideon , by Joseph F. Cotter, Jr., and The Menace of the South , by William J. Edwards; to Dodd, Mead and Company for Ere Sleep Comes Down and the Boy and the Bayonet (copyright 1907), by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
The Negro has been in America just about three hundred years and in that time he has become intertwined in all the history of the nation. He has fought in her wars; he has endured hardships with her pioneers; he has toiled in her fields and factories; and the record of some of the nation's greatest heroes is in large part the story of their service and sacrifice for this people.
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THE UPWARD PATH
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ROBERT R. MOTON
COMPILED BY
MYRON T. PRITCHARD
AND
MARY WHITE OVINGTON
THE BOY AND THE BAYONET
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
THE BEGINNINGS OF A MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL
WILLIAM H. HOLTZCLAW
UP FROM SLAVERY
The Struggle for an Education
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
A Student's Memory of Him
WILLIAM H. HOLTZCLAW
ANNA-MARGARET
AUGUSTA BIRD
CHARITY
H. CORDELIA RAY
MY FIRST SCHOOL
W. E. B. DUBOIS
ERE SLEEP COMES DOWN TO SOOTHE THE WEARY EYES
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
THE LAND OF LAUGHTER
ANGELINA W. GRIMKE
THE WEB OF CIRCUMSTANCE
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
IS THE GAME WORTH THE CANDLE?
JAMES E. SHEPARD
O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
THE GREATEST MENACE OF THE SOUTH
WILLIAM J. EDWARDS
THE ENCHANTED SHELL
H. CORDELIA RAY
BEHIND A GEORGIA MULE
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
HAYTI AND TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE
W. E. B. DUBOIS
HIS MOTTO
LOTTIE BURRELL DIXON
THE MONTHS
H. CORDELIA RAY
THE COLORED CADET AT WEST POINT
LIEUT. HENRY OSSIAN FLIPPER, U. S. A.
AN HYMN TO THE EVENING
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY
GOING TO SCHOOL UNDER DIFFICULTIES
WILLIAM H. HOLTZCLAW
THE BRAVE SON
ALSTON W. BURLEIGH
WALTER F. WHITE
THE DOG AND THE CLEVER RABBIT
A. O. STAFFORD
THE BOY AND THE IDEAL
JOSEPH S. COTTER
CHILDREN AT EASTER
C. EMILY FRAZIER
WILLIAM PICKENS
RONDEAU
JESSIE FAUSET
HOW I ESCAPED
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
W. H. CROGMAN
INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
ANIMAL LIFE IN THE CONGO
WILLIAM HENRY SHEPPARD
CO-OPERATION AND THE LATIN CLASS
LILLIAN B. WITTEN
THE BAND OF GIDEON
JOSEPH S. COTTER
THE HOME OF THE COLORED GIRL BEAUTIFUL
AZALIA HACKLEY
THE KNIGHTING OF DONALD
LILLIAN B. WITTEN
A NEGRO EXPLORER AT THE NORTH POLE
MATTHEW A. HENSON
BENJAMIN BANNEKER
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN
THE NEGRO RACE
CHARLES W. ANDERSON
PAUL CUFFE
JOHN W. CROMWELL
THE BLACK FAIRY
FENTON JOHNSON
IT'S A LONG WAY
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE
NEGRO MUSIC THAT STIRRED FRANCE
EMMETT J. SCOTT
NOVEMBER 11, 1918
SEA LYRIC
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE
A NEGRO WOMAN'S HOSPITALITY
LEILA A. PENDLETON
RECORD OF "THE OLD FIFTEENTH" IN FRANCE
EMMETT J. SCOTT
NEGRO SOLDIERS
ROSCOE C. JAMISON
THE "DEVIL BUSH" AND THE "GREEGREE BUSH"
GEORGE W. ELLIS
EVENING PRAYER
H. CORDELIA RAY
THE STRENUOUS LIFE
SILAS X. FLOYD
O LITTLE DAVID, PLAY ON YOUR HARP
JOSEPH S. COTTER, JR.
A DAY AT KALK BAY, SOUTH AFRICA
L. J. COPPIN
BISHOP ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD
W. H. CROGMAN
HOW TWO COLORED CAPTAINS FELL
RALPH W. TYLER
THE YOUNG WARRIOR
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
WHOLE REGIMENTS DECORATED
EMMETT J. SCOTT
ON PLANTING ARTICHOKES
From the Life of Scott Bond
A SONG OF THANKS
EDWARD SMYTH JONES
OUR DUMB ANIMALS
SILAS X. FLOYD
A LEGEND OF THE BLUE JAY
RUTH ANNA FISHER
DAVID LIVINGSTONE
BENJAMIN BRAWLEY
IRA ALDRIDGE
WILLIAM J. SIMMONS
FIFTY YEARS
1863-1913
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
A GREAT KINGDOM IN THE CONGO
WILLIAM HENRY SHEPPARD
PILLARS OF THE STATE
WILLIAM C. JASON
OATH OF AFRO-AMERICAN YOUTH
KELLY MILLER
THE END